Yesterday I read a blog article that said  Jesus went to the cross for our ‘broken hearts’ as part of the article lead-in (since it was Easter), and then went on to talk about the tragedy of people having broken hearts, and asking why so many miss the point of Jesus’ crucifixion, ‘healing broken hearts’. That, I think, demonstrates an ‘incomplete at best’ understanding/explanation of the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of our Savior – according to scripture at least.

While it is true that when we genuinely believe in and trust in Jesus as the substitute for our sins – as having died in our place – that we can endure the pain and suffering in this life, his death was a substitutionary atonement for sin, not broken hearts, or any other temporal malady. The main, and according to the Apostle Paul, ‘of FIRST importance’ thing, was Christ’s death and resurrection for sin. (1 Cor 15:1-4)

So why the overwhelming emphasis on by-products of the greatest act of love in human history these days, instead of the ‘main thing’? Are we so entrenched in a false humanistic form of Christianity, in which God exists mainly to serve us, that we are blind to the words on the pages of scripture? Or is the opinion that a strictly human decision cast the final vote for a person’s salvation (thus robbing God of His sovereignty over the souls of men) the culprit?

I am at a loss to explain it, but these days I hear every reason except OUR SIN being the reason Christ went to the Cross and was raised up – and I don’t go ‘heresy hunting’. there are a few stalwarts who keep the ‘main thing’ the main thing, but just a few.

Why? Have I missed the point?