“That God in his grace and mercy created Jesus to pay for and atone for our sins so that we may be saved”
I hope what you mean is that Jesus became flesh in order to pay the price for our salvation. Jesus was “begotten, not made”. As the Word, He was “with God in the beginning”. To say Jesus was created as a sacrifice completely destroys the basic premise of salvation: that He CHOSE to die for my sins.
See post #37. My point was that the perfect sacrifice was created ... not Jesus was created. Bad English on my part.