Think about it. Is it love to say that God did that to His own Son? This doctrine is one of the most vile when comes to God's character. The Scriptures say that God will forgive sins. However, the doctrine of Penal Atonemnet says no He won't. It says He requires the torture of His own Son. He could just forgive sins, like Scripture says.
I used to be a fireman. When I was going through the fire academy I made an oath. If I could save someone else's life I would. Even if it could cost me my own life, I would do it.
In World War II, the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed a little over 200,000 people. That's a lot of people, but it's estimated that 70 to 80 million people died in World War II.
That's about 20 million people per year. So, killing 200,000 seems like a small price to pay to save the next 20 million that may have died the next year.
Isa 53:4; Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5; But
He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.
Isa 53:6; All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him.
Isa 53:7; He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth.
Isa 53:8; By oppression and judgment He was taken away; And as for His generation, who considered That He was cut off out of the land of the living
For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?
Isa 53:9; His grave was assigned with wicked men, Yet He was with a rich man in His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.
Isa 53:10; But
the LORD was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
Isa 53:11;
As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied; By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, As He will bear their iniquities.
If Jesus had to die, to save millions and millions of people. He loved us enough to do it.
If I had to die to save my wife and children, I would do it. I know I would. I love them that much.
John 3:16; "For
God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
John 3:17; "For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but
that the world might be saved through Him.
Heb 5:8; Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered.
Heb 5:9; And having been made perfect,
He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation,
Before Jesus died, animals were sacrificed and offered up for sin.
Heb 9:6; Now when these things have been so prepared, the priests are continually entering the outer tabernacle performing the divine worship,
Heb 9:7; but into the second, only the high priest enters once a year,
not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.
But after Jesus died, this is no longer required.
Heb 9:11; But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation;
Heb 9:12; and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
Heb 9:13; For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh,
Heb 9:14;
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God,
cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb 9:16; For where a covenant is,
there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it.
Heb 9:17; For a covenant is valid only when men are dead, for it is never in force while the one who made it lives.
Heb 9:18; Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood.
Heb 9:22; And according to the Law, one may almost say,
all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
Heb 9:25; nor was it that He would offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood that is not his own.
Heb 9:26; Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
Heb 9:27; And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,
Heb 9:28; so
Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.
Jesus didn't die because the Father hated Him. He died so He could save the world. He loved us that much. He loved you that much.