We just watched Passion of Christ last night and it amazes me that any kind of loving father would allow that kind of treatment of his son.Yes, well, what amazes ME? is that that Son loved ME so much? that he willingly gave his life FOR me? and that His FATHER loved ME so much? that He LET him! Loved not only ME? and gave that life not only for me... but the WORLD... and FOR the world. Contrary to what the WTBTS says ABOUT "the world." THAT much? even for those who impaled him (?Father, FORGIVE them? for they do not know what they are doing??).
When the Isrealites made animal sacrifices to Jehovah they went and procured an animal either their own or bought one and then killed the animal by slitting it throat and offered the carcass to Jehovah by burning it. What strikes me a little strange about Jesus death is that the ones who killed Jesus did not even know they were making an atonement sacrifice for the world of mankind for Adams sin. The ones that killed him had no clue what they were doing. If they would have made the sacrifice according to how it was done with animals they would have said "looky here we have a perfect man lets slit his throat and burn his body as a sacrifice to Jehovah for an eternal ransom for us. That would have been the proper way to do it. Don't you think this makes much more sense? The way it was carried out makes such a mockery of it all and paints God to be a cruel father to let his son die such a terrible death, worse ten fold than the way they killed even animals, but then God did love killing and animals sacrifices, simply look at the tens of thousands of sheep and cattle that were sacrificed at the dedication of Solomans temple, and all this killing very much pleased this God of cruelty.