Objection: Jesus Could Not Literally BECOME SIN Because Sin Is a Thing, Not a Person

2 Corinthians 5:21 says that Jesus BECAME SIN.  So this is a head-on argument against Scripture itself in almost any translation you can find!  You can look, and just about all of them say that Jesus BECAME sin.  The fact that a Scripture is difficult does not mean that it is unscriptural!

The symbol of Christ on the cross was a snake (Numbers 21:5-9).  Thus, God was showing the Israelites that One would come who would BECOME sin and not just take sin upon Himself.  I realize that many battles are fought in theological circles about the implications of Jesus becoming sin, but you can’t deny what God says about it.  (See the extensive discussion elsewhere in this book about Jesus dying spiritually.)

If we follow this objector’s logic, once we cut 2 Corinthians 5:21 out of our Bibles, the next verse bound for the dumpster will have to be 1 John 4:8.  To be consistent, the objector would have to say that God is love, and love is a thing, not a person, so God cannot be love.

If we can accept that God can be love, we should be able to accept that Jesus became sin, even though such concepts stretch our human minds.