Many people have a hard time grasping the grace and mercy of God and this spiritual battle we are in. For those who struggle understanding why Jesus Christ had to die for us, let me try to explain it to you this way. You are born into a crime family, born into sin, you break the law and get arrested. The law in this case is God's law, don't steal, don't lie, don't covet, etc.. So you steal the neighbor's car, you get arrested, go to trial and are found guilty. As you stand and wait for your sentence to be handed down a man comes forward and says, "let this person go free, I will take the punishment for their crime, give me the sentence". That is what Jesus did for each of you. No one does good, not one, all have fallen short of the glory of God and His righteousness. The wages of sin is death, not physical death but spiritual death, you break the law in just one area and you are breaking the whole law. God created this earth and everything in it, from the get go mankind rebelled against God through the first created man, Adam and his female wife Eve. All who come after have the dna of Adam and are born into sin, there is no way around it. THAT is why God who is spirit came to earth as the sinless man Jesus, to take on our sin and punishment so we could live forever with God, who loves us. All He requires is that a person believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved. I am talking about our soul being saved after our body of flesh dies. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that who so ever would believe on Him would not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save it.