29. Didn’t Jesus become sin on the Cross?
Jesus became a sin-offering, not sin, per se. The term for sin is translated ‘sin-offering’ scores of times in Levitical contexts, even side by side with its usual translation, to designate a certain kind of burnt offering requiring a flawless sacrificial victim. This special offering was literally called a “sin” because it pointed forward to the greatest sin Israel would ever commit—the gratuitous abuse and bloody slaughter of their own divinely validated Messiah, the truly sinless ‘Lamb’ of God. Yet by this enigmatic means God’s saving justice got magnified in a manner impossible by less violent means, for His transcendent graciousness welled up from it like a gusher. To God be the credit!
The Premial Atonement 