Open Source Edition
arrow_rightPart One: The Profession of Faith
arrow_rightSection Two: The Creeds
arrow_rightChapter Two: I Believe In Jesus Christ, The Only Son of God
arrow_rightArticle 4. "Jesus Christ Suffered Under Pontius Pilate, Was Crucified, Died, and Was Buried"
arrow_rightParagraph 2. Jesus Died Crucified

In Brief

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“Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures.”1

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Our salvation flows from God’s initiative of love for us, because “he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins” 2. “God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself”3.

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Jesus freely offered himself for our salvation. Beforehand, during the Last Supper, he both symbolized this offering and made it really present: “This is my body which is given for you.”4

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The redemption won by Christ consists in this, that he came “to give his life as a ransom for many”5, that is, he “loved [his own] to the end”6, so that they might be “ransomed from the futile ways inherited from [their] fathers”7.

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By his loving obedience to the Father, “unto death, even death on a cross”8, Jesus fulfills the atoning mission9 of the suffering Servant, who will “make many righteous; and he shall bear their iniquities”.10

Footnotes

  1. I Cor 15:3.

  2. I Jn 4:10.

  3. II Cor 5:19.

  4. Lk 22:19.

  5. Mt 20:28.

  6. Jn 13:1.

  7. I Pt 1:18.

  8. Phil 2:8.

  9. Cf. Is 53:10.

  10. Is 53:11; cf. Rom 5:19.