By izartirta
The name Jesus means “The LORD saves.” He came to earth to save us because he knew that we can’t save ourselves from sin and all its consequences.
Unlike the other religion’s point of view, we – as the follower of Jesus Christ - are taught that no matter how good we are, we still won’t be able to eliminate the sinful nature within our very humanity. Only Jesus can do such thing because He is not an ordinary human being but God Himself. As apostle John has put it: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1)
Jesus didn’t come to help people save themselves; instead He sacrificed Himself for the penalty of our sin.
As we can read in Jesus’ Gospel according to Matthew: “The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel which means, God with us.” (Mat 1:23) This is not something that any human could make up, because this very nature of the birth of Jesus has already predicted by the prophet Isaiah seven hundred years earlier.
Jesus was God in the flesh; thus God was literally among us, “with us.” Through the Holy Spirit, Christ is present today in the life of every believer. Perhaps not even Isaiah understood how far-reaching the meaning of “Immanuel” would be.
