Objection: Christ Was Made Sin but He Was Never Made Sickness

Sickness is a curse for breaking the Law (sinning).  Jesus was “made sin” when He atoned for our sins.  He was made sick, but He did not turn into a virus.  To redeem us from the Law’s curse He had to be MADE SICK, but He did not have to be MADE SICKNESS.  The Law never stated that if you didn’t keep it all, you would turn into cancer or something.  But GETTING cancer definitely WAS part of the curse for sinning.  So there was no need for Jesus to be “made sickness” to redeem us from the Law’s curse because that curse never entailed BECOMING sickness.

Raising this argument allows the equally preposterous argument that Jesus did not redeem us from hell because He never BECAME hell.  He didn’t have to BECOME hell; He just had to take our place so that we would not have to go there.  He didn’t have to BECOME any form of punishment to endure that form of punishment.  Jesus was never MADE a whipping and He was never MADE a crucifixion.  These were things He suffered when He became sin for us.

Jesus had to “become sin” because he was sinless until then.  God could not justly punish an innocent man.  The only way that Jesus could take the punishment that we deserved (including sickness) was for Him to allow God to place Himself in our guilty, sinful condition by putting our sins upon Him.  At that point, God no longer saw Him as a spotless Lamb but rather as a sinful person deserving of punishment.

But thank God, Jesus did not STAY “made sin” – He rose from the dead without a trace of sin on Himself!