Christians: did Jesus die For your sins or Because of humanity's wickedness?

While largely held only by Eastern Orthodox Christians for much of the last one thousand years, the Christus Victor theory is becoming increasingly popular with both Evangelicals because of its connection to the Early Church Fathers, and with Liberal Christians and Peace Churches such as the Mennonites because of its subversive nature, seeing the death of Jesus as an exposure of the cruelty and evil present in the worldly powers that rejected and killed him, and the resurrection as a triumph over these powers. As Marcus Borg writes,

"for [the Christus Victor] view, the domination system, understood as something much larger than the Roman governor and the temple aristocracy, is responsible for the death of Jesus... The domination system killed Jesus and thereby disclosed its moral bankruptcy and ultimate defeat"[3].

The Mennonite theologian J. Denny Weaver, in his book 鈥淭he Nonviolent Atonement鈥?traces the further development of the Christus Victor theory (or as he calls it 鈥淣arrative Christus Victor鈥? into the Liberation Theology of South America

Christians: did Jesus die For your sins or Because of humanity's wickedness?live update

according to the Bible story Jesus was executed for sedition against Rome. the Pharisee apparently enlisted the help of the Roman governor because Jesus caused a near riot during Hebrew holy days while the Jews were under hostile occupation by the Romans. Jesus could've caused a massacre and further oppression with his antics.