Imputation on Christ?

 

From: TFTW Bible College

This idea is that all the sins of the world were imputed to Jesus on the cross, and He became the worst sinner ever. 

This contradicts the Bible’s teachings that Jesus was a perfect sacrifice. If Jesus became a sinner because He had our sin imputed onto Him, He is no longer a perfect man, and therefore He is not a perfect sacrifice. If that is true, we have no payment for our sins and we are all lost. When Jesus was offered to God, He was a sacrifice “without spot,” meaning He had no sins. “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” (Hebrews 9:14)

This incorrect idea may also stem from a misunderstanding of a Bible verse. “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” (2 Corinthians 5:21) Jesus is made to “be sin” for us does not mean He literally became sin. Instead, it is a figure of speech known as “Metonymy of the Cause.” This is where the cause is stated, but what is really meant is the effect. Hosea said, “They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.” (Hosea 4:8) People were not really eating sin, but they were eating the animals that were part of the sin offering. Therefore, Hosea said the people were eating sin (the cause) but what he really meant was the people were eating the sin offering (the effect). Similarly, Paul is writing that Jesus is made “to be sin for us.” While Paul states the cause (sin), what he really says is that Jesus is made to be the effect (our sin offering). Jesus was not sin and had no sin, but He was made to be a sin offering.


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