If Jesus became sin for us in 2 Corinthians 5, does that mean He became a sinner?
No. Christ did not become a sinner; He took the sinner's place as the substitute. As the sinless One, He bore the sins of the human race without becoming sinful, so that believers might receive the righteousness of Christ in Him.
Les explains that 2 Corinthians 5 says He became sin for us, but this does not mean He became a sinner per se. Instead, He took the sinner's place and became our substitute. Les compares this to Abraham offering Isaac: God provided a ram in the thicket, and the ram became the substitute, though the ram did not become Isaac. Likewise, when Christ went to the cross, He did not become a vile sinner, but He took upon Himself all the sins of the human race without becoming a sinner, "yet without sin." It was His substitutionary work that where you and I should have died, He took our place. He merely became our substitute, not any other person.
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
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What does it mean that God made Christ to be sin for us?
God made Christ, who knew no sin, to be sin for us so that believers could be made the righteousness of God in Him.