Jesus paying for our sins

Thanks for the argument. 1) Inheriting Sin of Others My opponent seems to be ignoring my points here, so I'll demonstrate them with an analogy. Let's say for the sake of argument that the mayor of your town, who happens to also be immortal (this is hard to demonstrate in terms of something that could happen without supernatural intervention in the world) makes all the laws of the town. Your gggg-grandfather decides to break one of these laws by stealing something. He is put in jail, but before he is jailed, he passes his knowledge of how to steal things to his son. His son is prone to stealing because of his father's fault. This son passes the knowledge to his son, etc., they eventually are each jailed, until it gets to you. You steal something, because your father taught you to. Now the mayor, tired of seeing his citizens jailed, cares about them so much that he takes your life sentence in jail for you so that he may inspire you to stop telling your children to steal. If you accept his sacrifice and realize that his laws are just, you and your family may escape jail forever. This is a fairly accurate representation of original sin and Jesus' sacrifice. 2) Biblical Contradiction My opponent has misunderstood what original sin is. This Bible verse claims that "the soul who sins shall die." We die BECAUSE of original sin. This verse already assumes original sin exists, and applies to those under the Torah and Mosaic Law. It had no pertinence to Adam's sin, as Adam wasn't under Mosaic Law [1]. 3) Redemption My opponent does not post the whole verse here: For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:8-10). It talks about us being saved by grace [2]. In other words, faith in Jesus' death and resurrection imparted grace, so that we may go out and do works in His name. This doesn't contradict Jesus' teachings or the necessity of his death (which I might remind voters is the subject of the debate), but rather justifies them. James also says: "Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead." (James 2:17) 4) Humans I honestly don't understand what my opponent is getting at here. Why would we be punished by God if someone didn't forgive us for a wrong we had committed? How is this justice in any way? I never claimed we never had to ask God's forgiveness (I claimed the opposite) but my opponent ignores this completely and just assumes that because some Christians believe in Sola Fide that any arguments I make here are completely futile. The arguments by my opponent are also getting increasingly unrelated to Jesus' death and more related to Sola Fide. 5) God "punishing" Jesus So many assumptions are made by my opponent here! First, God didn't do any torturing or killing. Humans did that of their own free will. Secondly, Jesus was willing to give Himself up. It was a sacrifice, not a murder (Once again, my opponent kind of just ignores this). My opponent does get one thing right: Jesus didn't deserve to die. He offered Himself up, to take the place of all humans (especially Adam, who, in his sin, represented all of humanity [1] ) who had sinned. Remember the sacrifice needed in Mosaic Law to forgive sin? Jesus was the sacrifice. Only someone who represented all of man and had the impact of a divine sacrifice could make up for all of the sin of humanity. I gave an analogy above. Lastly, my opponent once again ignores my argument that original and personal sin are different. Adam still had the possibility of reaching God [3]. The effects of original sin were not the same as the effects of an individual sin. Jesus' death was still necessary. I have proven this point and refuted all those of my opponent. He has not filled his BoP. Thanks for the debate! (Sources will be in the comments)