There are only two verses in the Bible's New Testament that persuaded me that I along with every other human being needs to be saved. Here they are:
John 3:16, KJV: For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 3:16 without a doubt is the best-known one of them. It's almost a cliché but it's a warning as well as a source of comfort. The only way to not perish is to believe in Jesus Christ. And God did that because He loved and loves us.
And then there is this one below which pretty much sums up why Jesus Christ died and what it should mean to each and every one of us.
Romans 5:19, KJV: For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
To explain or grasp succinctly what Roman 5:19 should mean to us, I've footnoted the discussion in the citation of “What Does Romans 5:19 Mean?”
"Adam's action was one of disobedience. He and Eve disobeyed God's direct and clear command to them. The result of that disobedience, as Paul has shown repeatedly, was that many were made sinners. Adam introduced sin into the world and every last person born, other than Christ (Hebrews 4:15), was born into that sin." 1
1 BibleRef.Com. Accessed May 28, 2022. https://www.bibleref.com /Romans/5/Romans-5-19.html.
"Jesus's action, on the other hand, His death on the cross, was an act of obedience. This is true in two senses. One, mysteriously, Jesus' life and mission on earth were characterized by His obedience to His Father, who is God, as Christ is also. Jesus spoke and acted in obedience to the direction of the Father (John 12:49; 8:28). That obedience included His own death: "And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross" (Philippians 2:8). Jesus' act of obedience, then, ensured that many would be made righteous through their faith in Him and by God's abundant grace." 2
2 Ibid
Believing in Jesus Christ's obedience to the point of death on the cross is the only means acceptable in God's eyes by which any of us can be freed from the curse of being born in sin.
It doesn't matter that we haven't killed nor stolen nor perjured ourselves nor done any major crime or transgression to merit hell.
We all merit hell. All we had to do to deserve hell is to have been born in sin.
That's it's unfair, after all, we didn't ask to be born, to come to this world, and to top it off, be born lost and in sin. It does seem unfair, very unfair. But then not too many things in life are fair.
But it's not so much that we're stuck in the middle of all this unfairness. It's more of a question of what we're doing to do about it.
Jesus Christ offered Himself as the price of redemption. So as unfair as it is that we're born into a world, into a life that we didn't sign up for, we still have, while we're still alive, the golden opportunity of not staying tarnished in God's eyes, but rather redeemed in His eyes on account of Jesus's obedience until God for sins that we committed.
He, Jesus Christ, allowed his body, his life, as the bail mail to get us out of an eternity in hell that we all earned for the mere sin of having been born in sin, for the mess that Adam and Eve dumped us into by way of their disobedience.
Roberto E. Fiad
