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Originally posted by Jeff Higgins
The sacrifice was not His death. That's as far as folks like you look before rationalizing that it was nothing, because He knew what had to happen next. No, His real sacrifice was that for just a moment, He really thought God, His very Father, had abandoned Him and was actually going through with this sacrifice thing. He thought it was "real"; the crushing weight of that cannot even be imagined by us. God meant Him to feel that, to feel the full weight of His abandonment. How that must have hurt Him as a father to make His son go through that can only be imagined.
So, your oft-repeated, over simplified reasoning that attempts to minimize this "sacrifice" by claiming it wasn't one at all simply fails to account for the true nature of it. Once that is understood, the whole thing becomes very clear. And so very much more awe inspiring than any physical sacrifice could ever have been.
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Well, oft repeated? I dont recall mentioning before, but I could be wrong. Aside for the question of the validity of JC's sacrifice- the part I dont understand is how does his sacrifice atone for our sins?
The Father, the Son, The Holy Ghost. The Holy Trinity. The One.
Forsook himself on the cross, did he?
Just my rudimentary understanding.