Violating design

All things are created and designed to operate a certain way i.e. according to their design. This is in fact why the scientific method works; most things are predictable, measurable, and reliable (though also broken and dying). If there was no design there would be zero consistency or predictability with anything. Everything would be chaos i.e. without order. 

Yes, there are still mysteries but not everything is a mystery. Certain things operate like clockwork e.g. the earth rotating every day, the sun being the same distance from the earth. The seasons change every year, etc. 

If there is design it stands to reason there is a Designer. No one thinks a relatively complex device such as an old-school pocket watch came into existence on its own. How much less an intricately and vastly more complex living being such as a human? 

Yet contrary to logic, we seem obsessed with a desire to remove God from the discussion - and life in general. So much so that many of the ideas promoted and believed by so-called experts are actually very illogical. 

This indicates that a purely materialistic view of the world is rooted in rebellious unbelief, not reason. In many instances, we often are better off relying on common sense and simply observing the ebb and flow of things instead of the so-called "experts."

When we acknowledge there is a Designer, then it's only reasonable to conclude there is a purpose for that design (i.e. things are created for a reason esthetically and practically). And if there is a purpose, then there is meaning to the existence of that which is designed. God designed things to operate a certain way, just as a watch has a reason for its design and existence.

To operate contrary to that way/design results in less than an optimal operation and outcome, even eventual breakdown with harm or destruction to others, ourselves, (missing an important event because you don't have the correct time - to continue the watch analogy) not to mention dishonoring the Designer i.e. to operate contrary to the wishes and intent of the Designer.

Christ stepped into this broken world of rebellious humanity, which violates His design. He took the ¹harm, destruction, and pain caused by this violation upon himself, allowing it to kill him (violation of design always has harmful consequences to someone, whether it us and others). He did this so we might ultimately be delivered from the consequences of this violation, with the harm, destruction, and breakdown that always occurs when things don't operate according to their design. 

To benefit from what Christ did, we must believe Christ actually did this for us. If we do not, we are rejecting His offer and are left to bear the full consequences of our choice on our own and alone. It is only logical e.g. If a time bomb is planted in your home and you don't have the skill or knowledge to disarm or remove it but an expert comes and offers to do it for you and you refuse (you suspect he's a con man to scope out your stuff), your house blows up. 

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¹spiritually, emotionally, and physically.

So why is Christ coming and dying so significant?

Christ's suffering not only occurred at the cross but in the incarnation itself. When Christ took on human form he set aside what He'd enjoyed from all eternity past - his divinity and the unobstructed communion of love with the Father in, by, and through the Spirit. This in itself alone was a great sacrifice - and He stepped into this world of pain (that we broke), suffering, and death as a man with all the needs and limitations of being human - not something the eternal Son of God experienced before His incarnation.

He emptied himself of what was rightfully his to give to us what was not rightfully ours. He did this so we might have what He had - perfect union and engagement with the very Creator of life, love, and all things! Why? Because he loves us that much.

1 The very definition of the root word "organ" implies design: a grouping of tissues into a distinct structure, such as a heart or kidney in animals or a leaf or stamen in plants, that performs a specialized task.