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Here's an excerpt of the answer:
There are a few issues with that answer.
On one hand, they believe Jesus is God and that he was sacrificed for the sins of mankind. And on the other they say God did not sacrifice Himself. So it implies that there is a God who was sacrificed and a God who wasn't.
The other thing is the second statement: "God...sent His Son to save us from our sin and the evil that naturally befalls those who reject the good. "
But God's "plan" to save us from sin involved sending His son (also God) to be sacrificed when He could have just saved us from sin without a sacrifice. So God did sacrifice Himself to Himself to save us from Himself because of a rule He made Himself.
Here's an excerpt of the answer:
God did not sacrifice Himself to Himself to save us from Himself because of a rule He made Himself. No, there are spiritual realities as certain as any physical reality or law of nature that we can observe: one of those realities is that death follows sin. But the God who is Love (1 John 4:8) sent His Son to save us from our sin and the evil that naturally befalls those who reject the good. “Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to—because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice” (Philip Yancy, from Where Is God When It Hurts?, Zondervan, 1990).
There are a few issues with that answer.
On one hand, they believe Jesus is God and that he was sacrificed for the sins of mankind. And on the other they say God did not sacrifice Himself. So it implies that there is a God who was sacrificed and a God who wasn't.
The other thing is the second statement: "God...sent His Son to save us from our sin and the evil that naturally befalls those who reject the good. "
But God's "plan" to save us from sin involved sending His son (also God) to be sacrificed when He could have just saved us from sin without a sacrifice. So God did sacrifice Himself to Himself to save us from Himself because of a rule He made Himself.