: : First of all, how could he have died for my guilt when I hadn't even been born yet? What guilt could I have acquired prior to my existence?: God is not confined to time and space. He knows everything that happened, is happening and will happen. He knows everything about everyone. He new you in your mothers womb and new you before he created the first man. "Even the hairs on Your head are numbered." Matthew 10:30. He was there when you scraped a knee, when you made vows to yourself that you would never be hurt again, when your parent dies. When Jesus was on the cross, he experienced everyone at one time, past present and future. He felt every pain, every sorrow and every disappointment of everyone who ever existed or ever would exist. "He himself bore our sins in His body."1Peter 2:24 "For Christ died for sins ONCE FOR ALL, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. HE WAS PUT TO DEATH IN THE BODY but MADE ALIVE IN THE SPIRIT." 1Peter 3:18
: Jesus literally took our sins in his body so that through his death, our sins and the deseases, pain and ultimate death they cause would die with him. He was the only ONE who could do this since He is not confined by time, depth, or space. When he was on the cross 2000 years ago, he felt you, knew you, wept for you and then died for you. Even before you were made alive by his will, you were very real to Him.
: There is not one single person on this earth that doesn't have access to this reconcilliation with the Father. But God is a respectful God who is not going to force you to accept the life he died to give you. But whether you choose to accept it or not does not nullify the fact that it has been done for you.
I could be wrong, but isn't the correct Christian response to DDN's query that we are, by virtue of being human, tainted with the hereditary sin of Adam. In other words, DDN, you might personally live a perfect life, but you are a sinner because you've inherited the sin of Adam. Jesus Christ, however, took teh sin of Adam upon himself and died for it, so that we are no longer tainted by that sin. In other words, you need not invoke a God that can see into the future, with all the logical lacunas that involves.
Can soem Christians correct me here? Lark?
