What did Christ's Sacrifice really do?

[Kortyr]

This is an issue that I am confused on. Most if not all Protestants believe that when Jesus died, he suffered expiation for our sins, so that when we except his gift, he is constantly taking away punishment for our sins.

But what do Catholics believe he did?

 

[Tyuiop411]

This is an issue that I am confused on. Most if not all Protestants believe that when Jesus died, he suffered expiation for our sins, so that when we except his gift, he is constantly taking away punishment for our sins.

Catholics believe all of that as well. But you also have to be truly sorry or “Repentant” of your sins. It’s not like some Born again Christians think that you get baptized once and then your good for the rest of your life.

 

[Kortyr]

But I heard in one Catholic post that he did NOT suffer damnation in our place. So is the way that he is still forgiving sins today through confession and the Eucharist? Because if he takes our sins away immediately then that would require that He had suffered damnation in our place, which I think is NOT what Catholics believe. I’m still a little in the dark here.

 

[AndyF]

This is an issue that I am confused on. Most if not all Protestants believe that when Jesus died, he suffered expiation for our sins, so that when we except his gift, he is constantly taking away punishment for our sins.

But what do Catholics believe he did?

It released us from the slavery of original sin which we are all born to. Jesus mended the rift that the sin caused and restored our friendship with God. This is what is meant by redemption.** It does not automatically ensure our entry to heaven.
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So now we can work for our salvation with a new hope and promise, a new covenant, but now we have a new instrument to assist us, the Sacrament of Penance which we can avail ourselves for the purpose of obtaining absolution if we should find ourselves once again in God’s disfavor.

Andy

 

[Kortyr]

The really cleared it up. Thanks to you both.