[Ed-M25546]

Susan, I think you miss the point of the Christian view of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. God does not desire a human sacrifice, what He desires is an everlasting covenant with his people. The animal sacrifices were meant to renew that covenant. People took their best animals and killed them as an emblem of their indebtedness to God. However, due to the constant tendency of mankind to sin for all time, no amount of animal sacrifice (or human sacrifice, for that matter) could atone for the rupture to the covenant relationship. Only an eternal sacrifice can keep the covenant relationship going. Hence, God incarnates himself as human being, simultaneously fully human and fully divine, and allows himself to be put to death. This explanation only makes sense if you believe Jesus really was the son of God and chose his death willingly. Otherwise, Jesus was just some wandering pseudo-hippie nutjob whose preaching upset the religious authority of the Sanhedrin and the political authority of the Romans so much that they chose to have him killed before his movement got out of hand and spread around the world.

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