Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.This is one of those logic points I've struggled to wrap my head around at times. Sacrifices are normally a 1:1 conversion: a life for a life. But Christ died once, and saved billions. So how could one perfect person's death have atoned for so many sinners?
I've usually chalked this up to the fact that He was also God, and therefore the infinite God could take the punishment for all of us. But I've also heard it said (both on conjunction with the previous or apart from it) that it was because He was raised from the dead, that that somehow made up the difference. But if that were the case, wouldn't Christ have had to die billions of times, to cover the 1:1 ratio?
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