Take the 2-minute tour ×  I always hear people say things like,
'the debt was too large' ... well, why? Why couldn't I pay for
my own sin?  I don't like that Jesus took punishment for me, I
would hate for my earthly father to get fined or beaten or
imprisoned for me, it would enrage me, it's completely unfair. I
want to pay the price myself. Why can't I?  The only thing that
seems to make sense is that for some reason there had to be a
blood sacrfice and that sacrfice had to be a perfect being
(similar to how animals could not be sacrficed if they had any
defects.) ... but why? Why does the person/animal dying need to
be perfect? It doesn't make sense to me yet, I know it's the
truth because I believe in God but I feel like there's a block
in my understanding, like I'm waiting for a lightbulb moment
where I go 'ahhhh ok now I get it.' PLEASE DON'T SAY 'there are
some things we will never understand because God is God and
mysterious and we just have to deal with that.' I don't believe
that is the case with suc