Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 111
? 104 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 an imperfect God and that his death could not, therefore, end in the end of the world and, therefore, it was He who was offered for the job and not God the Father, for, His death would have meant the end of the world. Yet another explanation is that God the Father and God the Holy Ghost did not love mankind as much as did God the Son. But this would condemn both God the Father and God the Holy Ghost as imperfect and would be inconsistent with the New Testament which declares "God is love" (Corinthians II, 13: 11). In short, either God the Son appears to be imperfect and a surplus being whose death could not affect the world as against God