If God is just, how can our ‘debts’ be forgiven?
It is through the blood of Jesus Christ that God forgives the debt of sin, as the Scriptures testify:
Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead… To him who loves us and washed us from our sins by his blood, and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen! (Rev 1:5–6)
This peace-making “through the blood of his cross” (Col 1:20; see Q012, Q195) is both a historical event and a once-for-all sacrifice transcending space and time.
On the basis of this shed blood (Heb 9:22; see Q319, Q376), the great High Priest Jesus Christ mediates and intercedes for his people (Heb 7:25): “there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all” (1Ti 2:5–6; see Q043, Q178).
