Learn About and Reflect on Three Different Verses of the Bible Celebrating Easter Sunday

Romans 5:8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

The message of salvation is that God sent his Son Jesus Christ to die so that people might be saved from their sins. Why did Jesus have to die? Why are people called sinners? What happens to a person when he becomes “saved”? These are very important questions because in order to be saved one must know the answers to them.

Genesis states that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. On the seventh day he created man in his own image. We all are very familiar with the story of Adam and Eve. The story of Adam and Eve plays an integral part in answering these three important questions. God gave Adam and Eve the whole Garden of Eden. He allowed them to eat from every tree in the garden except for the tree that he called “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” (see Genesis 2:17). Although Adam and Eve understood God’s commandment, they could not resist the devil who said that eating from that tree would open their eyes and make them as gods. Eve ate from the tree first and then tempted Adam who also ate from the tree. This disobedience is also known as “the fall of man”. Because Adam sinned there was curse placed upon the whole human race (see Romans 5:12). When Paul, in Romans 5:8, calls all of us sinners, this is what he means. Because of Adams disobedience, sin and death passed unto all men.

Further along in the Old Testament, God commanded that a bullock be burned to atone for the sin of the people (see Exodus 29:36). The definition of atone is to make reparation for. The burning of the bullock redeemed the people from sin. This was God’s commandment. The tabernacle was a holy place and God did not want anything that was unholy in his tabernacle. In order to enter the tabernacle, a person’s sin had to be atoned for.