Some seem to forget that we are mortal beings with limited and finite reasoning and imagination.
To us, in that limited state, it might ‘appear’ that Jesus, in ‘knowing’ that His sufferings were only ‘temporary’ and He would be glorified etc., would suffer ‘less’ than a ‘normal’ human being.
Uh-uh.
Of course, we can’t even imagine being God. . .but somebody once said for even a tiny idea of the difference between picturing yourself as the noble human who suffers ‘as much’ as Christ and ‘without the assurance’. . .
Picture yourself as suddenly becoming not a human, not even a ‘noble’ creature like a horse. . .but becoming ‘bacteria’. Completely ‘stripped’ of all that you knew and could do as a human, you would become something that most people would kind of ‘shudder’ at and think of as insignificant or even hideous. You’d have all the ‘knowledge’ of being human once but you would be physically nothing but bacteria. But you do this in order to take on the sins of ALL bacteria that ever were or will be–of ‘things’ that as a human you would not even perhaps want to ‘save’. . .and in the way that you ‘die’ as a bacteria you undergo unspeakable agony. Not only that, though ‘some’ of the bacteria will indeed be ‘saved’, the vast majority of that bacteria will keep on damning itself.
Then after some period of time, you get to ‘be a human’ again.
Now, do you really think that what you went through was such a piece of cake that any old human’s death is as ‘valid’ as yours was for the bacteria?
And above all, remember, that you dying for bacteria is still millions, billions, quadrillions of times LESS salvific in its action than Christ dying for YOU.
