Romans 5:6-8
6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
We have no ability to do anything to save ourselves. This is why Christ died in our place, to show love in mercy to unrighteousness sinners like myself. He did not die for good people (not that any is truly good by His reckoning), but for us while still sinners, worthy only of God’s wrath which we all inherited from Adam and continue doing in that nature. It makes no human sense why Christ would die for anyone but a good one worthy of the sacrifice, but that is why God is full of mercy and sent His Son. So we in His suffering, sacrificial death, and resurrection of hope have been reckoned righteous in Christ alone and saved from the due wrath out of love in mercy.
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