Mark 16:17... to me it means the devil was defeated when
Jesus died for our sins so we have authority over the devil (not to be afraid of him and to bind him in the name of Jesus).
«For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ
died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was RAISED on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas (Peter), then to the twelve.
jesus
died for your sins so there is no need for animal sacrifice, eating kosher, avoiding a woman when she has her period, etc etc. god suddenly became much more of a sweet and loving god, where before he was jealous and prone to killing people that defied him.
It is amazing that the One who said He was the Son of God,
who died for the sins of the world, who very accurately predicted the kind of death he would endure, and the fact that he would rise again from the grave, all of which happened just as He said, also said: «No man knows the hour or the day of my return» and «I will come as a thief in the night.»
The answer would always be Heaven because Christians are always forgiven because Jesus
died for sins once and for all.
Jesus came to rid the world of ritual so belief in Jesus
dying for your sins as a way to salvation is anti Christian doctrine.
For Christ
also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit.
Along with having one of the best titles of recent memory, Bobby
Fuller Died for Your Sins confirms that more than 25 years after making his solo debut, Chuck Prophet remains one of America's strongest songwriters and recording artists, and he's in great form here.
Christ
only died for the sins of believers, Jews and Gentiles, who make up the Church, Spiritual Israel, the Elect, the Chosen, God's family, the Bride of Christ, etc..
Vine Deloria, Jr., a Standing Rock Sioux, attorney and author of
Custer Died for Your Sins and God ls Red, was featured in mid-August as a key speaker at the Spirit of Place Conference at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral.
Entirely aside from this, however, this view that Jesus is the Savior because he saved us from eternal punishment
by dying for our sins is untenable for three reasons.
Why would we who believe Jesus had to
die for our sins think that laws and policies shaped by sinful man are infallible?
Today we celebrate the Easter
Bunny dying for our sins, and with a wiggle of his nose banishing our sins in camouflage painted eggs and hiding them so that the devil won't find them.
Let's review, God creates man, man disappoints, God kills all men except for one family, God restarts his experiment, God is further disappointed, he interjects himself into a virgin, lives a mortal puppet - like life, then has his
puppet die for our sins... And Judas is the one that is at fault....
Meaning that Christ
obviously died for our sins, and as we all are sinners because of the choices of Adam and Eve, He carried humanity's sin to the cross, correcting the wrong of the «first Adam».
The moment i came out of my mothers womb, they are telling me that i am born with sin, yet they say that «Jesus» died for my sins!!!
Salvation comes from believing in your heart that God sent Christ to
die for your sin life, IN YOUR HEART, because God loves you.
Only a perfect man can make penance but it is the non-perfect man that needs to make penance... Oh how great is Christ to
come die for our sins.
«Jesus Christ
dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we're sinful and we're flawed and we make mistakes, and that we achieve salvation through the grace of God» — Barack Hussein Obama