[drlevy88]

The torture, mutilation, blood and gore are a picture of something which goes eternally deeper, quite philosophically granted; but most importantly they were a God-designated, God-ordained, God-blessed picture of that something. We substitute airy, modern philosophizations at our own peril. Make the blood and gore into an icon to be worshiped for its own sake? NEVER, EVER. Remember it and its gut impact as the most striking picture possible on mortal soil? A millon times YES!!!

[nmh]

It is NOT the blood and gore that should remain in your eye and heart but rather the total separation from God that Christ experienced for us to have eternal life IF we believe in Him.

Just like in a rape, the physical will heal. It is the EMOTIONAL aspect that has difficulty. The same is true of Christ - the separation from God, EMOTIONAL that is what is most important for us to remember and understand.