Substitute, Christ kept the Law perfectly in every respect, and did so as a Man, the Man Christ Jesus, the Second Man, as Paul referred to Him, and the Last Adam (I Cor. 15:45–50). Irrespective as to how many people died on crosses that day throughout the Roman Empire, even had they attempted to die as a sacrifice, the giving of themselves could not have been accepted by God, simply because all men, due to original sin, were and are spiritually polluted. Christ Alone could fit this description of
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