The Bible tells us in 2 Corinthians 5:21 that "God has made Jesus to be sin for us, Who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him".
One of the first important things that we need to pin down in the matter of the trasnfer of sin from individual human natures to Jesus Christ, is that it is literal and not figurative. If it is only symbolical, then it is not real...then it never occured...it never really happened within us at all.
As hard as it is for us to aceept, or even begin to understand why Jesus would do this for us...if it were just symbolic...or merely figurative...of if it were simply a legality in God's mind - that is - somewhat like a dismissal of charges against us while we are still guilty; or, if it were only a "covering" of an entity or propensity that was still existent, it would have no actual effect on us. If this transfer of sins from us to Jesus Christ did not truly and effectively deal with sin, and destroy it within our sinful natures, then we have nothing real. This is precisely what the sacrificual offerings of bulls and goats accomplished:
nothing permanent and effective!
The truth is that something actually happens to the sin within our natures when we appeal to the sacrifice of Jesus' shed blood. It has to be more than mere symbolism or it is meaningless. Sin within us
is AFFECTED, and my judgment is that the degree of effect is comparable to the depth of Jesus suffering and death on the cross for human sin. The death of God's Son on Calvary was real and not merely symbolic, and so is the effect within human nature real when we are forgiven.
John writes (SEE 1 John3:8) that: "The person who commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose (sin's destruction) the Son of God was revealed to the world, that He might destroy the works of the devil".
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