Why God Had to Die

God is sovereign having the highest authority possible.  He is creator, sustainer, and provider of all that exists.  There is nothing greater than He.  He is I Am!

 

With God being creator of all that exists, he and he alone has the right to decide what is right and what is wrong.  Fortunately, for mankind the created, God loves us and cares for us.  Creation is his joy and pleasure.  Genesis 1:31 says, “God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was Very Good…”.

 

After God created the earth and mankind, he commanded mankind to enjoy the land and the fruits of the land, BUT only one thing was to be abstained.  That one thing was the fruit of the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

 

The tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil has been the subject of debate among many.  If one considers the temptation by the serpent, the implications of the tree and the reason God died comes to light.

 

The serpent, when tempting Eve explains the value of the tree.  Eating of the fruit of the tree gives enlightenment.  The enlightenment is described by the serpent as having the knowledge of God knowing good from evil.  This knowledge of knowing good from evil is “knowing how to live with God, which is good, and knowing how to live without God which is bad.  We all know how the story ends; mankind chose to learn how to gain knowledge to live life independent, without God.  We also know and are experiencing the outcome and consequences of that decision as we are living it today.

 

God told mankind what the consequence of eating of the fruit would be…death!

 

God is sovereign.  He made the rules of law.  If death was the consequence, then death must occur to satisfy his law.  Unfortunately, God loved mankind whom he created, so much so, he wanted mankind to escape the consequence and suffering of death; but how?  The flesh he created must die by his own edict.

 

God is Almighty, Sovereign, and True.  He is Truth.  He and he alone is and was able to create a way to fulfill his law while simultaneously creating an outcome that was Good!

 

Mankind was created flesh, but God was not flesh.  Mankind was the created while God is the creator.  One is pure while the other tainted with sin.  The two, creator and created, could not be the same, or could they??  The answer is yes, they could.  God in his sovereign wisdom was able to accomplish this.  He, the pure became the tainted in the person of Jesus of Nazareth (Phil.2:8).

 

Jesus of Nazareth was both God and Man.  How is this possible?  The answer is, Only God Knows!  He is creator of everything.  He is wise and all-knowing.  We are the created.  He is the creator.  Who has the right to even question the one who created?

 

It appears that God wanted to fulfill his own law by miraculously becoming the sacrifice for the penalty of sin because what he created was Good and it was his pleasure to save his creation from death.  This is what the reason appears to be.  This is confirmed in John 3:16.

 

What we need to do is embrace his embrace with thanksgiving and praise.  There is no need to scientificate his reasons.  We don’t need to have the knowledge for why.  We need Simple Faith.  God is Great.  His thoughts are not our thoughts, and his ways are not our ways.  We are the inferior while he is the Superior.

 

Flesh had to die, so God himself became flesh so flesh would die to fulfill his law.  We don’t have to understand it.  We only need to believe it.

 

Thank you, God!!  God Saves!!