Introduction : Christ and the concentration camps

- Fifty reasons why Jesus came to die. To absorb the Wrath of God

- To please His Heavenly Father

- To learn Obedience and Be Perfected

- To achieve His Own Resurrection from the Dead

- To show the Wealth of God's Love and Grace for Sinners

- To show His Own Love for Us -- To cancel the Legal Demands of the Law Against Us

- To become a Ransom for Many

- For the Forgiveness of Our Sins

- To provide the Basis for Our Justification

- To complete the Obedience Which Becomes Our Righteousness

- To Take Away Our Condemnation

- To abolish Circumcision and All Rituals as the Basis of Salvation

- To bring Us to Faith and Keep Us Faithful

- To make Us Holy, Blameless, and Perfect

- To give Us a Clear Conscience

- To obtain for Us All Things That Are Good for Us

- To heal Us from Moral and Physical Sickness

- To give Eternal Life to All Who Believe on Him

- To deliver Us from the Present Evil Age

- To Reconcile Us to God

- To bring Us to God

- So That We Might Belong to Him

- To give Us Confident Access to the Holiest Place

- To become for Us the Place Where We Meet God

- To Bring the Old Testament Priesthood to an End and Become the Eternal High Priest

- To become a Sympathetic and Helpful Priest-- To Free Us from the Futility of Our Ancestry -- To Free Us from the Slavery of Sin -- That We Might Die to Sin and Live to Righteousness -- So that We Would Die to the Law and Bear Fruit for God -- To Enable Us to Live for Christ and Not Ourselves -- To Make His Cross the Ground of All Our Boasting -- To Enable Us to Live by Faith in Him -- To Give Marriage Its Deepest Meaning -- To create a People Passionate for Good Works -- To call Us to Follow His Example of Lowliness and Costly Love -- To create a Band of Crucified Followers -- To free Us from Bondage to the Fear of Death -- So That We Would Be with Him Immediately after Death -- To secure Our Resurrection from the Dead -- To disarm the Rulers and Authorities -- To unleash the Power of God in the Gospel -- To destroy the Hostility Between Races -- To ransom People from Every Tribe and Language and People and Nation -- To gather All His Sheep from Around the World -- To rescue Us from Final Judgment -- To gain His Joy and Ours -- So That He Would Be Crowned with Glory and Honor -- To prove that the Worst Evil Is Meant by God for Good -- A Prayer -- Books on the Historical Reliability of the Bible's Record of the Life of Jesus -- Resources from Desiring God Ministries.