To eat means to appropriate to
oneself. Then it follows that any one who accepts or appropriates to
himself the value of Jesus' sacrifice by believing on the Lord Jesus
Christ and doing the Father's will, that one will have life everlasting
through Christ Jesus. The apostle Paul makes it clear that the death of
Jesus was for the benefit of the entire human race when he says:
'Jesus, ... by the grace of God, tasted death for every man'. "There is
one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who
gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time."--Hebrews 2;9;
1 Timothy 2:5,6.
[231]"Sin is the transgression of the law." (1 John 3:4) "The wages of
sin is death." (Romans 6:23) Adam transgressed the divine law and for
this reason suffered the penalty of death, and this penalty came upon
all mankind by inheritance. Jesus the perfect man permitted his life to
be taken that it might be used for the purpose of releasing Adam and his
offspring from the great enemy death, and that they might have a full
opportunity for life. Hence his life was made an offering for sin, or a
sin-offering.
[232]For many centuries Jehovah foreshadowed this great event in his
plan, and this adds to the importance of it; in fact, without the
sacrifice of Jesus it would have been impossible for any of the human
race ever to live at all.
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