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THEOLOGY OF PAUL M.M.NINAN ___________________________________________________________ Every sin has a consequence in the cosmic relationship which is marred and produces chaos. In bringing it back to order work is to be done and this is cost of redemption of cosmos which Jesus obtained through his resurrection. He could not resurrect unless he die. Sin brings in death. So Jesus even though he was God when he enters into the material world dies because of the sin. The redemption is not in the death, but in what happened after that. Because he himself died, he opened a way through his body into a system where matter regains its lost state of negative entropy. In resurrection the law of order to disorder reversed itself and this power of resurrection is open to all who are in Christ. This is the redemption. Legally the crucifixion was not a sacrifice. It was not done in accordance with the Jewish regulations. Jesus was crucified by the Romans and the High Priest did not take part in the killing. He was not bled to death. He died himself. Jesus himself was not a Levite nor a priest. He was a Rabbi from the tribe of Judah. The body was not burned but buried. The real sacrifice of Jesus was made by Jesus himself. He knew what he was going into – into death – when he decided to incarnate. The sacrifice was not the death but incarnation. He laid down his immortality and walked into mortality and gave mortals the gift of immortality if only they decide to be in Him. (Ephesians 1:7), "In whom we have our redemption through his blood." Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death. Did Jesus pay the price? He did pay the price of the sins of mankind with his own body in dying. And you and I and the whole mankind are responsible for his death in our sins. We are all paying for our sins and for the sins of the whole world when we die. Only our death does not lead to redemption or give us a way out of this death. In the incarnation itself he knew that he will have to die, because he is coming into a world under the law of death. But there was something beyond death in the plan. “Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffers many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. ‘Never, Lord!’ he said. ‘This shall never happen to you!’” (Matthew 16:21-22). Jesus knew that he must die, because the Scriptures said so. “Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected?” (Mark 9:12; 9:31; 10:33-34). “Beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself…. ‘This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day’” (Luke 24:26-27, 46). His death was always associated with the rising from the dead. In that process he paid for the sins of mankind because he was part of the mankind and in rising he redeemed mankind by making a way out. In that sense it was a sacrifice for the redemption of mankind. 92
THEOLOGY OF PAUL M.M.NINAN ___________________________________________________________ Eastern Christianity on the other hand views sin as a relational problem. Anything that disrupts relationships between people within the family, society, tribe, nation and mankind as a whole and also within the creation both living and nonliving world is called sin. Since all creation is part of God’s body it violates God. Sin alienates the sinner from God. It damages, and severs relationship not only within the social system between man, within the whole system of creation and also with God. Sin is thus viewed in terms of its effects on relationships. Sin is seen as Cancer is to the body, the refusal to follow God's plan, and the desire to be like God and thus in direct opposition to him To sin is to want to control of one's own destiny and to control and manage both society and cosmos to one’s own desires in opposition to the will and plan of God in the creation. In other words we are looking at the stability of the whole cosmic system which is disrupted by the sin. This is exactly what incarnation did. Sacrifice is not limited to the death, but life of Jesus as a whole – life, teachings, death, burial, resurrection and assumption. Redemption 93
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