[apologist]

I mean, why pain and bloodshed to make up for a sin? ..... Why does He have to become Man in order to die a bloody, horrible death on a cross.

Perhaps in our human minds we minimize sin, but in God's view sin is just as heinous as the sacrifices that cover them? If God is just, the penalty would fit the crime, no? He may see the crime in a different light than we do...

[malakhi]

If God is just, the penalty would fit the crime, no? He may see the crime in a different light than we do...

"An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth." The penalty must be proportional to the crime.