Why did the redeemer have to be a man?

(From a May 2005 teaching)

Deuteronomy 6:4 states that the whole purpose of man is to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.

Our purpose in this life is to love God with all that we are.  How do we love God?

John 4:24
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

In the beginning, man had a perfect spiritual connection with God as well as dominion over the whole earth. He (Adam) soon forfeited this dominion to the adversary (Satan) by disobedience.

Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

It was a man (human, Adam) who lost the original, perfect, spiritual connection with God, so in turn it would make sense that a man (Christ) would restore the connection.

Matthew 1:18, 21
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Verse 21
And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

God sent his son, Jesus Christ to save us from our sins and allow us to connect with God

John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Jesus Christ Is the only way to the Father!

I Timothy 2:5
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

This is the way God put it in order to function: God in Christ in You.  Jesus is the mediator, the connection between God and us.

John 14:12-14 – Jesus said:
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.  And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.  If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it

Jesus Christ had to be a man. If he were God, there would be no way for us to do his (Jesus Christ's) works and GREATER, for there is none greater than God.  Only God can create the heaven's and the earth in Genesis, but we cannot do that.  However, since Jesus Christ is the son of God, and was a man, we can do the works that he did.

Romans 5:12, 15, 17, 19, 21
12 Wherefore, as by one man [Adam] sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

By one man's one offense (Adam) we were dead in trespasses in sins
By one man, (Jesus Christ) we are redeemed from all evil!

17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Jesus Christ is referred to as the “Second Adam” in the Word.

I Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

God accomplished 7 things by his son:
The number 7 means “spiritual perfection”

The Birth of Christ.
His sinless life.
The death on the cross.
His resurrection 3 days and 3 nights later.
His ministry following the resurrection.
His Ascension.
The coming of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.

By these seven things he became our perfect passover.

Exodus 12:5
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: 6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

I Pet 1:18-19
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

Jesus Christ Was the End of the Law, and gave his life by freewill choice to redeem us from sin.

Jesus Christ:
Is the only way to the Father - John 14:6
Was Tempted in all things yet without sin. - Heb 4:15, 2:18
Always did the Father's will – John 4:34
Was the perfect passover – I Corinthians 5:7
Is the master key to the word's interpretation – I John 5:20, Rev 5:1-5
The Promised seed in Genesis – Gen 3:15
Lived “by the Father” - John 6:57

God Bless You!