Title kind of says it all, but I sometimes don’t get why he couldn’t have forgiven humanity.
I get time and time again he has but we didn’t listen, but I find it kind of hard to understand how an all loving God is able to give up his son.
I still love God ofc but this kind of confuses me.
Any thoughts?
My theology is a little rusty, but I believe the point if it was basically to serve as one final, ultimate sacrifice - much like the ones made to Him for centuries before - one that would remove the burden of offerings in order to curry favor (ostensibly, anyway- practically we obviously know otherwise) from us going forward.
I might be waaay off base tho, who knows 🤷♂️
I was taught that all earthly sacrifices were insufficient since they were of this fallen world. Only Jesus was perfect enough to pay for the sin of all mankind.
Why any of that was necessary - unless there was a set of rules that God was required by some other force to abide by - was never explained.