We're all sinners. I'm just a sinner saved by the grace of God. I still sin and need to daily confess my sin and ask forgiveness from God. It's not easy. That doesn't come natural. It's 'natural' to rebel against God and to sin. That's very EASY as we all know.
Sin is cosmic treason against an infinitely holy and just God. That's a problem we all have. The penalty for sin, treason, is death. Genesis 3 tells how sin (rebellion against God) first got it's hold on this universe and the havoc it has wrecked since. the sin that Adam and Eve committed stained this entire world and has grown with the sins of each of us since. This is where physical death and spiritual death (seperation from God) came from. Before this, Adam and Eve lived in a perfect world with a perfect relationship with God. One sin ruined all that. God is holy and does not tolerate sin...at all. But in his grace, the story of the cross tells of God's way to reconcile us so that we can have a relationship with Him and be saved from the just consequences of His wrath. We are not spared physical death in the world, but are spared spiritual death, seperation from God, and are reunited with God at our physical death and then have that perfect relationship with Him at that point.
Christ paid for the just consequences of my sin on the cross where God put all his holy and just wrath on Jesus Christ, his Son, for the sins of those who turn to Him, so they can be spared what they deserve. What I deserve! What love! What an inexpressible gift! Accept it and His love for the lost expressed in that act of sacrifice on the cross, what is perhaps the most derisive and brutal way the Romans ever invented to punish someone, an absolutely brutal practice that there are not really words for, taking the due punishment for the sins of those who turn to Him so they spared and can live! He suffered and died for you! For me!
He did that on purpose; that was His plan all along...to die for the sins of the world and take the just wrath of God the Father upon himself to spare us that accept Him and come to know him and love him and submit wholeheartedly to an infinitely powerful, loving God. He is the gift, and all of us, whether we are willing to admit it or not, have a God sized hole in our hearts that can only be filled by Him. NOTHING ELSE SATISFIES or can satisfy but God and God alone. Let him love you and save you. Let him be Lord of your life. His resurrection on the third day shows His absolute power over sin and death, the eyewitness acounts of this alone establish this as truth.
The massive changes in the lives of those who come to know Christ is further proof. There's a movie in the theaters right now called
I Can Only Imagine. Trailer: I Can Only Imagine Trailer #1 (2018) | Movieclips Indie - YouTube Go see it. It's about the change in the life of a father of a well known member of a Christian band, Mercy Me. His Dad (played by Dennis Quaid) was a horrible father, to put it mildly, and his son wanted nothing to do with him at some point. The father was diagnosed with cancer, and through God's grace came to the Lord. See the movie to know what happens...it's amazing.
There is so much proof! This thread has just mentioned a drop in a 5 gallon bucket of the truth of the claims of the Bible as God's Word! Not to mention what happens in your own heart when you believe God's Word and are saved.