2. The Necessity of Jesus Christ's Coming

As descendants of the first two people, trespassers of God’s command, we have inherited a sinful nature.

There must be said at this point that man did not inherit also Adam’s guilt of not following the command of the Lord, but each and every one of us is responsible only for his own deliberately committed sins:

„20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son ...” (Ezekiel 18.20)

The sinful nature makes man easily sin.
As also in the case of any other transgression, there is even for the commission of sin a reward or wage.
According to the law of Godhead the wage for the committed sin is eternal death (s. Romans 6.23).

This implies the necessity to deliver or save mankind from eternal death.

As God did not want to let the human beings follow the path to eternal perdition, he decided that One man alone should pay the wage for all.

He had to be without fault and shoulder blame of all people, by paying with his death, so that they could receive eternal life again.

When this man was born, he was given the name JESUS; this is not an ordinary name, but has a meaning: ”Jesus” means ”Saviour” or ”Rescuer”.

The news of his birth was brought to mankind this way:

”8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.”

(Luke 2. 8 – 11)

Thus, he was confered a second name: Christ.

This is a Greek name and means: ”The Envoy (or: The Annointed One) of God”.

The Hebrew synonym for the name Christ is ”The Messiah”.

Therefore, Jesus Christ means ”The Saviour sent by God”, in other words ”The One who has the mission or the consent of God to save mankind from eternal death”.

The apostle Paul exclaims:

”15 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners ...”

(1 Timothy 1.15)

The sinners are not merely a restricted number of people or only a certain category, but all people, we all.

”46 For - the Scripture says - there is no man that sinneth not.”

(1. Kings 8.46, 2. Chronicles 6.36)

”8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1.8)