Question: Was there any other way for God to forgive our sins besides the Cross? If there was, why ...

Question: Was there any other way for God to forgive our sins besides the Cross? If there was, why didn’t He use it—or did He?

Answer: No, there was not. You know the scriptures: “I [Jesus] am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (Jn:14:6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
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In the Garden, Christ pleaded with His Father: “If it be possible [for man to be saved any other way], let this cup [i.e., the Cross] pass from me” (Mt 26:39). The answer was “No, there is no other way.”

We have broken the law of our infinitely holy Creator. The penalty for sin is separation from Him in eternal torment. He cannot compromise His justice without condoning our sin, thereby breaking His own law and becoming as guilty as we are.

There was only one way that God “might be just” and yet justify sinners (Rom:3:26To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
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