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Why was Jesus Sent?

shroom said:
This verse directly answers your question.

1 John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

That does not mean everyone will automatically be saved, Matthew.

Some of the works of the devil are that all creation has been subjected to frustration, put in bondage to decay, and subject to groaning as in the pains of childbirth.

Rom 8: (NIV)
20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it [the devil], in hope
21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

One day Jesus Christ will return and take back the control of this world from the devil (1 John 5:19). That has not happened yet. But it will.
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Thank you for sharing!
 
Are there any more answers anyone can think of about why Jesus was sent?

I do not know if anyone said to reconcile the world back to God, or not. Which was God in and through Christ, to make everything in its proper order overcoming many things people shared here, such as defeating the Devil, paying for sin, overcoming death and Hades.
 
Also to free those from bondage and let those under heavy burdens have a lighter burden by trusting in Jesus who’s has done everything he could have done for you to be saved from the darkness! To have freedom to become able to see, and no longer be blind. To heal the broken hearted, and bring comfort to those who mourn.
 
shroom said:
1 John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
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shroom said:
One day Jesus Christ will return and take back the control of this world from the devil (1 John 5:19). That has not happened yet. But it will.
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The implication here is that Jesus then somehow failed in his mission. Scripture says that he ‘appeared’ to destroy the works of the devil who’s been sinning ‘from the beginning’ and YOU say it hasn’t happened yet, so what was the manifestation? A nice try?

You miss it because you don’t understand that the son was sent “in the beginning” to counter the devil who has been sinning since the beginning. The son is the spirit first ‘begotten’ in the form of Adam. First ‘manifest’ at the very beginning of the story of us.
 
MatthewG said:
Are there any more answers anyone can think of about why Jesus was sent?

I do not know if anyone said to reconcile the world back to God, or not. Which was God in and through Christ, to make everything in its proper order overcoming many things people shared here, such as defeating the Devil, paying for sin, overcoming death and Hades.
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Through Jesus Christ, God demonstrated ‘the way’ we are reconciled from sin, and returned to glory. The ‘we’ is not physical people (always understood as physical, sinful nature) but spirit- that which outlives the sinful nature of this physical world. It is only the spirit that returns to God and that is reconciled to the Father who is spirit.
 
“Then [Jesus] said to them, ‘It is necessary for me to preach the gospel of the kingdom of God to the other cities; for this is the reason that I have been sent.’”

(Luke 4:43)
 
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