There are consequences for sin. Our sin provokes God’s wrath, a powerful and just anger, and His rightful judgment. Because of even just “one” sin, you are spiritually dead in your sins, separated from the goodness of God and unacceptable in His sight. And because it is God who makes the rules and sets the standards in the perfect world He created, the penalty for sin, God’s rightful judgement, is physical and spiritual death and eternal punishment.
“For the wages of sin (the price that sin pays for even one sin) is death (physical and spiritual), but the (free) gift of God (by His grace) is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23 NKJV; emphasis added)
“Therefore, just as through one man (Adam) sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death (and eternal punishment) spread to all men, because all sinned.” (Romans 5:12 NKJV; emphasis added)
That “eternal punishment” for sin is horrendous and is generally described as an “eternal fire (the lake of fire) prepared for the devil and his demons, as both physical and spiritual never-ending torment and conscious suffering where their “worm does not die” and the “unquenchable fire” of burning sulfur and brimstone with weeping and gnashing of teeth, as mentioned in Mark 9:48 and Luke 13:28. (emphasis added).
“And anyone not found written in the Book of Life (who was not born again… for a second time) was cast into the lake of fire (the second death).” (Revelation 20:15 NKJV; emphasis added)
This is God’s justice for sin… “just” what we deserve.
His justice required that all sinners “shall surely die” (said to Adam in Genesis 2:17) to pay the penalty for their sins, unless someone else dies to pay the penalty for them. But God’s justice required that the substitute for man be a human who had committed no sin, because if the substitute had sinned, his death would only pay the penalty for his own sin.
There was not one perfect, sinless human who could be that substitute.
Not one.
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