ABSTRACT
Christ's death is different from all of the types of death like natural death, war or self-sacrifice. When Christ was nailed on the cross, he was just about thirty-three years old. The early church did not grasp right away that Christ's life was not taken away from him but rather laid down by him. With the spreading of the gospel to the Gentiles, the concept of human sin ceased to be restricted to a Jewish understanding, that is: the disbelief in Jesus as the Christ. Sin became more widely understood as not knowing the only God, worshipping empty idols, and as ethical deprivation, all of which made salvation necessary. The son of God, Jesus Christ, died for the sin of all people on earth, thereby revealing God's love. He became humble and obedient, he laid his life down: this is the essence, the root of God's love for humankind.
