Christ was all about forgiveness, yea, even for the stupid.
Absolutely! He made it all so simple. Because some either "cannot accept' such unconditional love or 'don't understand', they reject His Word. The audicity in trying to 'understand' The Almighty. We accept it on faith. His Ways are not our Ways. And then He shows us 'personally' that His way was better.
It's about a personal relationship with Our Heavenly Father and not about 'religion'. He is a jealous God, HE wants fellowship with us and that is how we get to know HIM - reading HIS WORD and that still small voice of The Holy Spirt! And all because of Our Savior, Jesus' Blood!!
You know, I hear this argument all the time but the plain and simple fact of Scripture is that neither God nor Christ wrote one literal single word in the Bible. I know, I know, what you're going to counter with: "divine inspiration" so I counter back with was it "divine inspiration" that sparked the inquisition? The Dark Ages? Ignorance that led to burning of witches and the resistance of scientific thought? I actually prefer today's "WWJD" expression as a stand in for the literal black-and-white interpretation of the Bible. Christ, IMHO, taught forgiveness as a way to salvation and made the love of God personal to all mankind (even repentant Muslims that depart from Mohammad's Islamic hate and violence).