"I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried..."

They killed him. They taunted him...tortured him. They killed him. Why? What had he done? The answer of our faith over the centuries has been NOTHING. He was the only perfect one who ever lived. Sinless. Yet the record remains and our affirmation is repeated: "...suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried..." Why?

The traditional answer, of course, is that "Christ died for our sins."(1) The Bible says so. Our youngest Sunday School students know it. John the Baptist declared, "Behold the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world…