*Jesus Christ took upon him the sins of every soul in the world. Do you ever wonder what's the purpose of this life? Don't you think there's more to being that inhabiting a body, going to school just to go to work and make money, raising a family, and dying when you get old? The trials and tests we must endure are but the refiner's fire. It's to help us grow and strengthen and get us back worthily to our heavenly home. But since no unclean thing can dwell in the presence of God, and we all fall significantly short of perfection, there must needs be an atonement.
Bible Dictionary "Atonement - The word describes the setting "at one" of those who have been estranged, and devotes the reconciliation of man to God.
"Sin is the cause of estrangement, and therefore the purpose of atonement is to correct or overcome the consequences of sin. From the time of Adam to the death of Jesus Christ, true believers were instructed to offer animal sacrifices to the Lord. These sacrifices were symbolic of the forthcoming death of Jesus Christ, and were done by faith in him. Jesus Christ, as the Only Begotten Son of God and the only sinless person to live on this earth, was the only one capable of making an atonement for mankind. By his selection and foreordination in the Grand Counsel before the world was formed, his divine Sonship, his sinless life, the shedding of his blood in the garden of Gethsemane, his death on the cross and subsequent bodily resurrection from the grave, he made a perfect atonement for all mankind. All are covered unconditionally as pertaining to the fall of Adam. Hence, all shall rise from the dead with immortal bodies, because of Jesus' atonement. 'For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive' (1 Corinth. 15:22), and all little children are innocent at birth.
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