How does substitutionary atonement help anything? If we are sinners who deserve death and can never deserve heaven

[b]...how does having someone else pay our fine make it ok for us to go to heaven?
We're still sinners.[/b]

If i break your window and someone else pays for the window to be fixed...i'm still a window breaker. How does the fact that someone else payed for the window make me trustworthy to have around windows?

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Spoiledbrat · F

We can ask for forgiveness and I don't think we have all the answers. We just try to do the best we can.

Pikachu

@Spoiledbrat

Yeah i think most of us are just doing the best we can. But in the eyes of god, everyone falls short because even at our best we will still sin.

Spoiledbrat · F

@Pikachu Of course we fall short. We are human but we can ask for forgiveness because Jesus died on the cross.

Pikachu

@Spoiledbrat

But that's my point. What difference does Jesus dying make?
If we can ask for forgiveness when we truly are trying to be better then what purpose does this substitutional atonement serve?

Spoiledbrat · F

@Pikachu Tbh I don't question it. I feel like we either have faith or we don't.