Bleed Between The Lines

Redemption is simply when someone else who can afford it, pays the price for someone who owes a debt. Redemption in the bible is the idea of redeeming property lost by a family member. In the law, this was God’s way of keeping the economy fair. The need for redemption came when a person was too poor and had to sell themselves into slavery or when someone died it evolved the redemption of all of their property including any wives or land.
There were 4 requirements of a kinsman redeemer:
He must be a close relative
He must be able to redeem
He must be willing to redeem
The price must be completely paid.
This shows us why God was the only one who could have saved us and it shows the necessity of the cross. As sinners we owe the debt that incurred by sinning which is death. Now if you owe a debt to someone and I owe the same dept I can’t redeem you because I need to be redeemed. In order for our debt to be paid, it had to be paid by someone who didn’t owe the debt. This is why God the redeemer of Abraham and Jacob came to earth and was nailed to a tree, because he could afford to pay our debt and he loved us enough to do it.