Which mortal man in his right mind could have ever invented a scenario, (like the one that Jesus presented), in which God himself would have to suffer and die by his own creation in order to be able to forgive mankind’s sins?
It is downright outrageous! Think of it!
A man’s mind would have never been able to think of such a farfetched, ridiculous scenario as depicted in the Bible:
God himself, borrowing a human form and dying the worst kind of death there was, being tortured on a cross like the worse of criminals!
Who would have ever thought of that?
And what for?
Because God needed to satisfy, appease, his own sense of Justice!… him being willing to pay himself the sentence that every man had to pay for his personal sins!
Preposterous!
And yet that is what Jesus claimed!
He said that the whole of the Deity lived in himself, him being the only Son of God.
He came to earth as a baby, lived a sinless life, and experienced all the sufferings that we, sinners, deserve to experience.
He was killed in the worst possible way, and descended in the world of the dead where he experienced a further torturing of his spirit, until his Heavenly Father esteemed that he had suffered enough for his creation.
Having submitted himself to all that, however, Jesus had opened up a way for his followers to be rightly forgiven of their sins.
Unthinkable, isn’t it?
And yet, the more you think about it, the more it makes sense:
It was a divine plan.
Only God could have thought of such an un-thinkable, impossible plan of salvation for mankind.
And the only reason that mankind did accept and believe in it was that Jesus’ contemporaries saw all the unbelievable miracles that Jesus had performed throughout his ministry and were convinced by them.
There was no way they could reject such a mind boggling, “mysterious” plan of salvation, since it came out of the very mouth of the Messiah!
They, in turn, willingly gave their lives for what they had seen, heard and experienced in Jesus, and the world started living a new era, the “Christian” Era…
And we, silly men of the 21st century, do not even give a thought of the unbelievable self-sacrifice God himself had to bear in order to save us!
How will we ever escape from his fierce wrath on Judgment Day?