[rwfromkansas]

"Dr. Sandra Schneiders, a New Testament scholar at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif."

That is your first problem right there....women religion professors have wacky heresies.

The biggest reason why people say this stupid bile (excuse my language) that somehow Jesus did not have to die for our sins, that there was another way (as if God would have actually killed his son if there did not need to be a sacrifice for our sins).

He was the "lamb slain from the foundation of the world." God killed him because unless there was a sacrifice of the Son, of somebody who could be a SECOND ADAM and SON OF MAN to be OUR SUBSTITUTE, there was no way for true redemption and reconciliation.

Jesus had to die.

[Cold Heat]

Jesus had to die.

Not to mention that it was foretold in the Old Testament.

Gibson shows this in the film when he depicts Mary as having fore knowledge of the event.IMO

[spunkets]

"Jesus had to die."

He could have died of old age if some folks would have been nice. They weren't, but that was because they chose evil over good. Their are others that were mostly good, but none other than Him that were totally. See Isaiah 63, Jesus was given the keys. He chose to forgive them. All except those that reject the Holy Spirit.

Had those nasty folks repented and not killed Him, He would have been just as forgiving. The measure of intensity of His death quantified the evil in the world.