Did Jesus on the Cross Die for You Personally, if you are Saved? (Spoiler Alert: Yes)

A certain objection against invoking the saints, not the version that soul sleep makes them non-interceders, not the version that they don't intercede, or never intercede for a specific person, is this: while St. Peter could theoretically be interceding all day up in Heaven, there is no way he could be aware, while remaining human, while remaining a creature, of each prayer that millions are adressing to him, and even more prayers are adressed to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

This poses a little question. Let's suppose you are going to Heaven, Jesus actively died for you personally ... or didn't He? Perhaps He only died for "all who are saved" (and also, in another sense, "all who are offered salvation" or "could be offered salvation, if no other circumstance stopped it") and had no thought of you in particular?

I think most Evangelicals would agree, He died for me personally. He actually had me in mind.

Now, how many millions or even billions are saved over time? How many hours did Jesus have while dying on the Cross? About 3 hours.

3 hours = 180 minutes = 10 800 seconds.

With one billion saved (from OT saints starting with penitents Adam and Eve, to the last person to be justified and remain so up to the rapture), this makes 0.000 010 8 seconds to think of each saved person separately. In other words, to a person in this mortal life, as such, impossible.

So, did Jesus do this as God? Won't do either. You see, it is as man that He died for us. It is as man that He is our High Priest.

Or by the conversio idiomatum, the fact that statements about Jesus as Man also apply to Jesus as God, because He is the same Person? Will only take us this far. God died on the Cross is true, but only if you add "as Man." Jesus upholds the Cosmos is true, but only if you add "as God"

I'll let you in on a certain Catholic doctrine, which seems to have been an earworm to Martin Luther. His infamous and heretical "simul justus et peccator" rhymes with it. The Catholic doctrine doesn't say that a Christian is at once in a state of sin and in a state of grace, which is false, but says something about Jesus Christ up to the last breath on Calvary. Simul comprehensor et viator. This means He was at once in the process of earning Heaven (for Himself and others) and in the state of already enjoying Heaven. Comprehensor means someone who "Deum comprehendit", who enjoys or sees or if you want to press it "understands" God. Viator means someone who is "in via" or on the road to the heavenly fatherland.

In other words, knowing every single person He was dying for, He did not do it simply as God, He also did not do it as a Man on the Way, but He did it as Man in Heavenly Glory. Yes, by the way, He did enjoy Heavenly Glory fully, even on the Cross, He bore punishment, but never wrath. He was not temporarily damned, with the damnation my mortal sins would have earned me, that's not how it works. So, the Heavenly Glory which He already enjoyed enabled Him to know each person He died for.

But the saints in Heaven aren't Jesus, so what does this have to do with them?

Until we all meet into the unity of faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the fulness of Christ
[Ephesians 4:13]

But doing the truth in charity, we may in all things grow up in him who is the head, even Christ
[Ephesians 4:15]

Our Heavenly Glory is meant to be like His. I think this answers the question. If Jesus in 3 hours could know everyone who is saved from Adam to the people seeing Henoch and Elijah ascend, over a period of 7000 years or more, St. Peter* can in 24 h know everyone who is invoking St. Peter during the same 24 h.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Our Lady of the Rosary
7 October 2025

Festum sacratissimi Rosarii beatae Mariae Virginis; itemque sanctae Mariae de Victoria commemoratio, quam sanctus Pius Quintus, Pontifex Maximus, ob insignem victoriam a Christianis bello navali, ejusdem sanctissimae Dei Genitricis auxilio, hac ipsa die de Turcis reportatam, quotannis fieri instituit.

* The same is true of the Blessed Virgin, as per today's feast, or St. Bridget, as per tomorrow's.