@ Fisherman
Wow... where to start ? First of all, I am sympathetic to your WT indoctrination. I was a 4th generation JW and regular pioneer when I woke up. It took several years sitting in a decent bible-believing church to undo WT insanity. But here goes:
Legally speaking, as Alan F pointed out, how is it just for humanity to suffer and die after justice was served with the payment of the ransom.
First of all AlanF was just another unsaved XJW that had no grasp of Christinaity just like we all were at one time. There are actually three parts to humans. Soul, Body, and Spirit. Only the spirit is renewed and immortalized in man upon getting saved. This is characterized as a downpayment in scripture of the full restoratation to come pertaining to the other two parts - soul and body.
Secondly, a person must accept the death penalty payment on their behalf in order for the contract "for the forgivness of sins" to be ratified on their behalf. It's kinda like when you ask a girl out on a date. If she says no, you don't throw a fit, you eventually move on.
The physical effects of the antibiotics starting to work are felt during the millennium. Jesus resurrected the dead, restored people to good health is proof that the ransom works.
There are no resurrections described during the Millinium Reign. This is a total unbiblical WT fabrication. What scriptures can you point to the say this? None. The reality is that when unsaved people are resurrected, it is done at the END of the Thousand Year Reign. - "the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished"
And, it is to face judgment at the Great White Throne, not to pet Panda bears like the WT deceives.
So to answer the question raised in the Topic, Jesus gave empirical evidence that the ransom works—for some people, the ones that were healed by Jesus. That is not really the issue that the ransom works.
The proof that we have is Jesus' resurrection. It is our guarantee along with his word since Jesus said that he would resurrect himself from the dead and then did it. This alone is the object of the Christian faith - Jesus' death, burial and resurrection. No other evidence is needed beyond this. If Jesus' was RAISED FROM THE DEAD, THEN OUR RESURRECTION IS JUST AS SECURE TOO.... if we agree to the terms.
The tension is that Adam sinned resulting in God demanding justice in the payment of a ransom
Wrong.... God demanded death as payment of sin - ours. God never demanded a ransom. That is just nuts. Where is that in scripture? God provided a ransom because Jesus (who was also God in his Spirit) said that he would do it. He specifically said that "Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again." John 10: 17
There is no legal imperative for God to save anyone. Salvation is a kindness... undeserved, unmerited and legally unnecessary. Your next breath is a gift from God, because his has a rule, the punishment of sin is death.
to him and since justice was served, what is the legal reason for humans to suffer so horribly and die ((and especially caused by Christianity instead of christianity at least mitigating human suffering). The application of the ransom is not a legal reason why humans are required to suffer and die when somebody else already did that for all humans, Jesus. Legally speaking, why is the ransom not working physically?— Playing devil’s advocate.
Didn't really make a lot of sense out of this statement. But, in a nutshell the Godward effect of Jesus, death, burial and resurrection is called propitiation. It means that God ruled that a VICARIOUS death penalty is acceptable to him and would be allowed to be applied in place of a sinner if he or she chooses.
The manward effect of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ is called reconciliation. But no where is reconciliation said to save a person. It simply refers to its availability. In other words, man is now savable.
Jesus offers the actual contract "for forgivness of sins" in Mt. 26: 27-28. This is the contract that JW's reject at each memorial.
If a person does not believe that Jesus was raised from the dead and if they do not accept this contract "for the forgivness of sins", then both the legal concession (Propitiation) and the availability (Reconciliation) are moot.
What you are missing is the vicarious nature of the actual sacrifice "the just for the unjust" - 1 Peter 3: 18
You see Fisherman, Jesus didn't die to "buy back what Adam lost". That is way to general of a statement to understand anything meaningful. What happened is that Jesus actually "became sin"... just like when the ancient priests would place the sins of a person on an animal and slaughter the animal in place of the sinner.
The animal suffered the death penalty in place of the sinner. Remember when the priests would place the sins of the people on a goat and send it away into he wilderness to face certain death? That is what Jesus did for you. He want's to take your death penalty for you, in your place. Because he loves you and saw what a terrible predicament we are in. He want's to be your scape goat, if you'll place your sins on him.
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. 2 Cor. 2: 21
See how we trade places with Jesus? That is the exchage.... if a person wants it. The WT tries everything they can to hide this simlpe and beautiful offer. It is a very generous offer.