Timothy Maas Supporter Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U. S. Army

Sin can be viewed in terms of a debt owed to God. Since the fall of humanity into sin as described in Genesis 3 (which had been preceded by the fall of Lucifer (Satan) and the angels who joined him in his prideful rebellion against God), humans have been and will always be incapable of paying that debt for even the smallest sin. As Paul said in Romans 6:23, the wages of sin is death -- both temporal, and in eternal separation from God. 

As noted in John 3:16, since God loved the humanity whom He had created, and did not want it to universally suffer that eternal punishment, He Himself became a Being (that is, Jesus) who was both fully God and also fully human, and who could thus be capable of both being conceived (through His virgin birth) and living free of sin, and then voluntarily submitting to having the cumulative "sin debt" of all humanity from eternity past through eternity future placed upon Him in dying a sacrificial temporal death, which God subsequently attested to be a sufficient sacrifice in His sight by raising Him from the dead to live eternally.

As a result, all humans who place their faith in that sacrifice (rather than in their own imperfect righteousness) to be judged acceptable in God's sight will experience the same resurrection and eternal life in God's presence.

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