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Assume God exists. The creator could be on a temperament spectrum from ultimate villain to ultimate good. If we assume that God is ultimate good, what would God have to do to demonstrate this? Would words be enough? Would showers of gifts and blessings demonstrate it? Or would you need something else?
Talk is cheap as most of us know through personal experience. Gifts tarnish and get old.
Sacrifice is the only way to really demonstrate love. In our human experience the highest form of sacrifice for another would be a torturous death.
How would God demonstrate the depth of his love for us if he was the ultimate good? Likely his own torturous death to demonstrate to his creation his love for them. Demonstrating that his love for us isn't merely talk.
In the Old testament of the Christian faith God outlined the requirements for animal sacrifice for the atonement of sin - the requirements for His people to be united with him. It was usually a young blemishless male animal.
In the Christian faith God himself took the place of sacrifice to demonstrate his infinite love for us. He came into this world, poor, born into a stable, worked hard as labourer, lost his father, lived the same complex difficult lives we do, then was whipped till his flesh was in ribbons and was nailed to a cross to die.
At any point during the crucifixion Jesus could have stopped it. With a thought it would have been over. Yet he saw it out to the end.
I don't know what more demonstration anyone needs of how seriously God loves us.
We killed God and he returned in forgiving love.
This is the Good News.
Happy Easter everyone.
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