oneyellowbird.

“Humanity is so utterly selfish and so far astray that nothing would suffice for its salvation but that the Son of God should be plucked from the bosom of the Father and be crucified in sacrifice. The indescribable horror of Golgotha is the most terrible and searching judgment on man that could possibly be made: mankind is so bad that that it rose up and, spat in the very face of God and slew him on a tree. None of us can dissociate ourselves from that … to do that would involve us, if possible, in even greater sin by sheer hypocrisy. If Christ came today we would still crucify him, only no doubt with a greater refinement of cruelty than even the Romans were able to think of. We cannot evade the fact that the cross is the most devastating judgment on man and woman, on all of us, that could possibly be imagined. The gulf between God and man is abysmal that Christ had to cry ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ That is the midnight hour, as Kierkegaard said, when we are all unmasked. What then does the cross have to say about the meaning of sin? Sin is revealed in its own act to be attack upon God, and to be something from which God turns away his

face in judgment.”

T.F. Torrence