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Tomorrow is Good Friday, so Christians the world over are getting ready to celebrate their re-salvation. It’s the commemoration of the death of Christ, the single most important event in a Christian’s life.
You see, apparently we were all born with sin; due to the original sin committed by our ancestors Adam and Eve. You might think at this point we’ve evolved to the point where we should be indistinguishable from that pair, if they ever did exist- to still be carrying their sin around our neck. But that’s just the way of the ever merciful but notoriously unforgiving Christian God.
So to forgive everyone, and remove that noose Adam’s original sin placed on everyone’s neck, God had to make the ultimate gesture.
So God sent Jesus Christ (God the Son)- who’s a part of God but also a distinct being- to die and redeem all of mankind. God put the stain of sin on man in the first place, but there had to be an elaborate, very gory public death to serve as atonement.
The problem, the sacrifice didn’t really sting, did it? By nature a sacrifice has to have real consequences, that’s why it’s called a sacrifice. In the Bible, God himself requested some really terrible sacrifices. Abraham was stopped at the last moment from killing his son, but the emotional scars from such an ordeal wouldn’t heal so easily. David and Batsheba’s first kid had to die, as did Jephthah’s daughter: that’s how you atone.