Christ Made Sin

I just wanted to explain my statement in class today that "not only did Christ bare our sin, but scripture says that Christ became sin". 2 Corinthians 5:21 says,

21 God made him who had no sin to be sin [a] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (NIV)

1 Peter 2:24 He himself carried our sins in his body on the cross. He did it so that we would die as far as sins are concerned. Then we would lead godly lives. His wounds have made you whole. He personally carried away our sin in his own body

Henry Blackaby in his study Experiencing the Cross summarizes it this way: "Jesus---the One who knew no sin, the One who had never sinned---was made the essence of sin for us, all by the deliberate action and purpose of God the Father". That takes some pondering.

A later question in the study asks: How would you explain the concept of "Christ made sin" to someone who had never heard or read anything from the Bible?

He personally carried away our sin in His own body so we don't have to carry the burden of it in our own flesh any more. It was as though for a moment in time every vile, wicked, putrid thing mankind has ever done or imagined doing He allowed Himself to be covered with, as though He committed those sins Himself. It's like taking someone else's cancer into your own body so they do not need to suffer death or the effects of the disease.

Actually, it's deeper than just taking our "cancer" from us into His own body; it's as though He became the disease and in so doing when He died, the disease died with Him, bringing with it the ultimate cure, so no one would ever have to die from "cancer" again (should they choose to receive His sacrifice on their behalf).