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God was under no obligation to reconcile man to Himself after the fall of Adam and Eve. However, because God is Love, He so chose to do so by sending a new Adam and a new Eve, Jesus and His Mother Mary.

Through man, sin entered the world and through man, redemption came - the God-man, Jesus Christ. He Who took on human flesh being born of the Virgin Mary, came into the world hypostatically united to His Divinity (He remained God and took on human nature) and thereby offered man redemption and won salvation.

To say that God did not experience pain is nonsense. God yes is a spirit and spirits cannot 'sense' as we humans do. But only God could have designed a plan whereby He would remain God and take on human nature at the same time so He could suffer.

To be sure, it was the only way mankind could be reconciled to God - that a perfect sacrifice be offered to Him. That sacrifice was Jesus the Christ. Could God have chosen another way to redeem us? Yes, certainly He could for He can do all things. But, He did not select another way - He chose suffering and crucifixion for His Divine Son and He did so to show each one of us the seriousness of sin.

We have lost the sense of what sin is and what it does. Our cultures abound with sin chalked off as something okay in this day and age; acceptable for our times. We have become so desensitized to sin that we can no longer recognize it or even when we do, we act it out anyway believing that it's okay since it is the norm or everyone else does 'it.'

God takes sin very seriously and if you do not think so, look at a Crucifix and think about what it truly means. God is hanging on that Crucifix, nailed hands and feet to a wooden tree, bleeding and suffering such pain and agony that we could only imagine in a remote manner.

The movie the Passion of the Christ came very close to the portrayal of what it must have been like at that time. Refresh your memories now as we recall during this Holy Week, the Passion and Death of Our Lord, Jesus Christ.

"Jesus Christ crucified, have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us."

As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. They ate and drank, they took husbands and wives, right up to the day Noah entered the ark—and when the flood came it destroyed them all.
It was much the same in the days of Lot: they ate and drank, they bought and sold, they built and planted. But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and brimstone rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. It will be like that on the day the son of Man is revealed. . . . Remember Lot’s wife. Whoever tries to preserve his life will lose it; whoever loses it will keep it. (Luke 17:26-33)