Did Jesus take away the sin of the world? What does that mean?
Its an offer,
Of God's Grace.
See, everything that Christ has Accomplished, on The Cross, that He said "is FINISHED, Accomplished", then proven by His Resurrection, is a Universal OFFER.
So, Christ "takes away the sin of the
World".....exactly as.. "for God so Loved the
WORLD that He gave His Only Begotten Son.""
This simply means that Christ (Adam #2) has accomplished all that is necessary to resolve, for each person, what must be resolved so that They may rejoin God, in Spiritual Union, that Adam #1 originally lost for us all.
"God hath made JESUS to be sin....for us".......as "the one time ETERNAL Sacrifice for sin"....for the sin of the world.
Everything that God has Accomplished by wrapping Himself in Human flesh, born of a Virgin, to shed His Blood on The Cross, is an OFFER of God's Grace.
Its a Universal Offer to "All who will believe".. "all who will trust"... "all who will give their Faith"......."All who will Receive Christ as Savior".
The Cross of Chrsit deals with
The Sin of the WORLD......one BELIEVER at a time.
Reader,
"The WORLD" (John 3:16) refers to each individual Sinner......exactlty as the phrase "the body of Christ" and "the NT Church" = refers to each individual born again BELIEVER.