Jesus Did Not Pay For Our Sin

Sin is not part of the eternal equation because it is gone as far as the east is from the west.  Our sin is separated from us and still moving away from us and God in opposite directions never to cease travel (hyperbole and symbolic application intended), therefore, the original payment (physical death and separation from God for eternity in Hell) did not have to be paid by Jesus because none of our sin is attributed to us with regards to our eternal destiny.  Jesus did not pay for our sin, he obliterated it (in terms of the eternal consequences of it). 

There are three reasons.
     1.  God is holy and has holy anger against sin.  (Psalms 5:5, Proverbs 6:16-18).  God vented his eternal anger against sin on the person and the body of his only Son, instead of us!  (2 Corinthians 5:21).  This fact allows God to be kind, gracious and forgiving to us in this life.
     2.  The human body of Jesus became the garbage dump for your sin and mine — past, present and future. (2 Corinthians 5:21).  He became sin. After the death of Jesus, God hurled sin in opposite directions for endless travel out of his sight (with regards to eternal punishment in Hell).  (Psalms 103:12).  For the believer, Hell is no longer of eternal consequence because the evidence is lost (gone/missing).  
     3.  The horrible death of Jesus on the Cross is designed to break your heart and mine, and bring us into a broken-submissive state before our God.  1 Peter 2:24, Hebrews 10:1-4.

“He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.”  1 Peter 2:24, NIV.

“For the law (legal blood offerings of the Old Testament) having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect (spiritually-mature or whole).For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience (guilt after confessing and forsaking) of sins.But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance (recurring guilt) again made of sins (past and present) every year.For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away (the guilty conscience of) sins.“  Hebrews 10:1-4, KJV.  (Parenthesis mine.)

The horror of Jesus’ death on the Cross is the physical pain and the humiliation of being naked; however, much more it is the filth of the Son of God when he became sin in the presence of his holy Father.  Think about the time you were most ashamed and multiply that shame many times over.  Plus, imagine as best you can, the feelings of Jesus who never committed a sin, becoming the reservoir of all of humanities sin and because of that being forsaken (abandoned) by God.  He, who had never known sin, became sin.  He who had never been outside of the loving arms and sweet presence of his Father, now abandoned by his Father.  I did that to Jesus. You did that to Jesus.

I find it impossible to think very long about the crucifixion of Jesus without weeping uncontrollably. Ladies and gentlemen, that is the normal reaction of severe heart-break for which there is no remedy; and for the heart-break of the Cross, there is no remedy.