WHY THE CROSS?
WHY THE CROSS? Why this sort of death? That is, why didn't Jesus die by being stoned or by a soldier just striking him with a sword or by some other kind of quick death rather than one that was so agonizing and so prolonged? The Bible doesn’t explicitly address that question but here are some suggestions that may be why Christ’s death was hard and there involved so much suffering. It could be so that we could see how destructive sin is and that we could see in a stark shocking portrayal the effects of sin taken to its ultimate conclusion in a human life. The cross is a six-hour journey displaying what the life-time battle with sin's...
