Christ was without sin. The sinlessness of Jesus is affirmed throughout the New Testament. Christ therefore satisfied the righteous demands of the Law. God made him share our sin. MacKnight understands this to mean that God made Christ our sin-offering. The rite of the scapegoat pictured what Jesus would do. The sins of the people were confessed on the goat and transferred to it. At the cross, Jesus shared our sin, which was transferred to him. Johnson says: "Since we die with Christ, in him we pay the penalty, and are justified [put right with God]." God puts men right through their faith in Jesus Christ (Romans 3:22).

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