Jesus died for our sins and is not in hell. Why?

Full Question:

If the punishment for sin is death "of the spirit" and Jesus died for OUR sins, how come he isn't in Hell?

Answer:

Wow! I know this is a very tricky question. First of all I thank you for this wonderful question. I like it so much and I consider it myself as one of the best questions I received. It is very difficult to give an answer for this question with human brain. But by God's help, I can also answer this question too.

In the time of Law, the Old Testament, there are many types of offering to please God. They are 1.Sacrifices to please the Lord (Whole burnt offerings) 2.Sacrifices to give thanks to the Lord (Grain offerings) 3.Sacrifices to ask the Lord's blessing (Peace offerings or Well-being offerings) 4. Sacrifices to ask forgiveness (Sin offerings) 5.Sacrifices to make things right (Guilt offerings).

By the death of Jesus Christ, He became a sacrifice for all these, for the whole humankind. Here we only want to look at the 4th sacrifice, 'Sacrifices to ask forgiveness' (Sin offerings), to know the answer. This sacrifice is used to ask for God's forgiveness and to make amends for specific unintentional sins and to become clean after becoming ritually unclean.

What was used to happen in the Old Testament time according to the law was people used to sacrifice animals like a young bull, a male goat, a female goat or lamb, two doves or pigeons, two pounds of fine flour, two goats and a ram for their sins. These animals on sacrificing will die for the people's sin. As we all know with common sense that, at this time, animal is not the sinner, but it is dying for the sin of other people. These act doesn't means that animal is a sinner or no one can say that the animal is sinned. There is no soul for animals. Even if they have souls they will not need to go to hell according to the law for they are not sinners, but they only died for the death of other people's sins.

Very very similarly, Jesus died on the cross not for his sins and He is not a sinner. But He died on the cross for the sins of all mankind. It was like the animal died for the sins of people in the Old Testament. As there is no need for the animal to go to hell for that, Jesus also do not have the need to go to hell.

Then I would also like to change the misunderstanding of all Christians who believed and answered for this question that, 'Jesus was in hell for three days.' I would like to say all you dear people that, Jesus never went to hell according to the Bible. And Jesus was not in hell between the three days from his death and resurrection. Three important things I want to say to prove is that,

1.Jesus is not a sinner as you have seen to go to hell; Hell is for sinners.

2.By Luke 23:43, Jesus was in Paradise which is not hell or a place related to hell. (Luke 23:43 "Jesus answered him, I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.")

3.By Acts 2:31 also it is clear that Jesus was not in hell. (Acts 2:31,"Seeing what was ahead, he spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to the grave, nor did his body see decay.")

Hope you understand these answer very clearly. may God bless you all with this answer.