Could Jesus Have Died For Our Sins? (Jeremiah 31:30):

This might be the easiest debunking yet, and that is saying something. Some skeptics, for whatever reason, use Jeremiah 31:30 to try to say Jesus couldn't have died for our sins. Hilariously, this can be debunked by reading the very next few verses.

"But everyone will die for his own iniquity; each man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge," (Jeremiah 31:30 NASB 1995). The verse may seem scary, but let us read the next few verses.

'“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. 33 “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their iniquity(ie immoral behavior), and their sin I will remember no more.” (Jeremiah 31:31-34 NASB 1995).

For those who still don't understand, let us walk through this. The first verse, 30, says each man dies for his own sin. In the next verse, 31, God states there will be a new covenant. A new covenant, one separate and unique compared to the old. Finally, at 34, the Lord tells us he will forgive our sins. He personally will. Huh, weird. Who was that one guy, the one who claimed to be God? Who claimed to save us from our sins if we only accepted him into our hearts, who was that guy? Hmm.

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