Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 80
80. WHY JESUS WAS SINGLED OUT FOR CROSS ?. Another question that arises about the atonement is that with godhead being tripartite, why the Messiah was singled out for atonement? Granted that Adam had sinned, granted that the sin of Adam was transmitted through heredity to his children, even though it is a totally silly assumption. . Also granted that hereditary sin is susceptible of no remedy (another silly idea) and that it called for an external remedial measure. Further granted that the atonement is the only remedy that would wash off hereditary sin (yet another foolish idea); though such a remedy would fit in with the idiom in usage in our country, namely "hit the knee, burst the eye. ' (Someone, it is said, was hit on the knee and started wailing that his eye had been hurt). ". To say that sin could not be taken away from the world but the hanging of the Messiah by the Cross took it away, amounts to the same thing. The whole argument is unsound; its parts being in no way inter-related. But let us grant it and also grant the further argument that a person with Divine attributes alone would serve the purpose. But the question arises-why. God the Father did not offer Himself for this mission? After all, He has the attribute of mercy too. Or has He not?. When God the Father is Merciful to the world beyond comprehension, why did He not offer Himself for atonement? Why did not God the Holy Ghost do so? Wherefore did God the. Son alone come forward for the purpose? There can be only two answers to these questions. It will have to be admitted that either the death of God the Father, or that of God the Holy. Ghost would have ended in the dissolution of the world and, therefore, God the Son offered to be sacrificed. It will have to be simultaneously admitted in that case that God the Son is