Now flip over to another passage, Romans 5, verse 8. Many people in cultural Christianity tend to see salvation solely as forgiveness, as if Christ's love merely grants them forgiveness for their sins, and those who stop there failed to realize the greatness of Christ's love.
So something of this magnitude is evident in the fact that He died not only so that we might be forgiven but also so that we might be justified. He died not only to have our sins blotted out but also that we might be reconciled. He died not merely to save us from punishment, but to give us eternal life.
