What Does It Mean When, "Christ Became Sin?"

When a criminal is punished for a crime, it is the criminal who bears the burden of punishment, though it is the crime that is the source of the wrong. Likewise, when a sinner is punished for a sin, it is the sinner who bears the burden of punishment, though it is the sin that is the source of the wrong.

For Christ to be the substitution for our wrongs, He had to move the source of the wrong onto Himself and take that completely away from us. This is why the Bible says, "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 Corinthians 5:21, Galatians 3:13)