(February 16, 2015 at 12:08 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Is this a fair analogy:
speeding remains illegal, so you still shouldn't do it, for example, but if you do, Jesus pays the ticket ?
As followers of Christ we strive not to break the law and get the speeding ticket, but to live as law-abiding citizens. But if we do get the ticket, realize we did wrong, and come to Christ for forgiveness, he has paid the price for us. Before Jesus paid the price on the cross, we had no forgiveness for what we did. We may have strove to live good lives, but inevitably sinned and remained apart from a right relationship with God. Jesus intercedes for us with the Father and we are made perfectly acceptable to God, by "putting on the righteousness of Christ."
