Why is Jesus the savior of the world?
Romans 1: 16-17 defines the gospel as the manifestation of God's power for the salvation of all people who believe in him. In this way, the Bible affirms that Jesus Christ is our savior; He is the redeemer of our sins, by means of which we can establish a relationship with God.
Now, the question that is asked is simple: Why is Jesus Christ the savior of the world?
Genesis 2 is clearer, affirming that God created relationships as a couple to ensure that human beings have company and enjoy their sexuality. We see that in Genesis 2:18, where God says it's not good for the man to be alone, and in 2:24, which says: "Therefore, a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join his woman, and they will be one flesh. "
We can also see the good intentions of God in Genesis 3, where the human being falls into sin. The first couple, who represents all of us, decides to violate the divine commandments in order to be "like God, knowing good and evil" (Gen. 3: 5). After this act, God goes in search of being human and asks "Where are you? (Gen. 3: 9)
Thus we see that God does not cast out sinful humanity. On the contrary, God searches for lost humanity for the purpose of blessing and restoring it. We can see these divine good intentions in the history of Israel, particularly in episodes such as the calling of Abraham, the giving of the law and the proclamation of the prophets.
Over time, the people of Israel developed a religion based on the teachings of the law of Moses and the proclamation of the prophets of Israel and Judah. However, that religion was not monolithic. By the time of Jesus, Judaism was divided into different groups that held diverse and, at times, even contradictory doctrines.
Normative Christianity was dominated by two groups. First, we find the Sadducees, who were the custodians of the priestly system. The Sadducees dominated the high priesthood, the temple of Jerusalem and all the cultic apparatus of Judah. They carried out animal sacrifices and other rituals that sought communion between God and humanity.
Second, there were the Pharisees, who dominated the synagogues. They affirmed the importance of the word of God, studying the sacred scriptures and biblical interpretations of the rabbis. They sought communion with God through Bible study and tried to fulfill the 633 laws that the rabbis claimed were found in the Hebrew Bible.
none of these groups fulfilled fully the prophetic vision of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Despite having religious leaders, the mass of the people awaited the arrival of a "Messiah", that is, of a leader anointed by God in a special way to fulfill the prophecies of liberation, expressed in texts such as:
Isaiah 42: 6-7: "I, Jehovah, have called you in righteousness and I will hold you by the hand; I will keep you and make you a covenant to the people, by the light of the nations, so that you may open the eyes of the blind, that you may bring out prisoners from prison and those who dwell in darkness out of prison.
Jeremiah 31:31 & 33: "The days are coming, says the Lord, in which I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah" & "But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Jehovah: I will put my law in his mind and write it in his heart; I will be their God and they will be my people. "
Ezekiel 36: 26-27: "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. I will remove from you the heart of stone and I will give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you, and I will cause you to walk in my statutes and keep my precepts and do them. "
The Apostle Pablo, who had been a Pharisee rabbi, has a supernatural encounter with Jesus and understands that Master Galileo was the Messiah sent by God in fulfillment of the prophecies of the Hebrew Bible
In Romans 3, Pablo attacks the postulates of Pharisee theology, stating that "by the works of the Law no human being will be justified before" God (3:20). That is to say, the former rabbi Pharisee now recognizes that obedience to the law and ethical-moral effort is not enough to transform the human heart. To change something, it takes power and to change the human heart we need the power of the God who comes through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ is the manifestation of the justice of God in the world. He is the mediator of the new covenant promised by Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Through the work of Jesus Christ, we can overcome the consequences of sin that has separated us from God.
This is the good news of the gospel: God declares us righteous through the work of Jesus Christ, who gave his life so that you and I would reach salvation. Jesus Christ is the "redeemer", that is, he is the one who pays the debt we had with God and with humanity. Jesus Christ is, then, our savior.
Who is Jesus? Jesus is:
The Messiah
Christ
The Suffering Servant
The Savior
The Redeemer
Who manifests justice of God
Our Lord
