the cross showed me how much Jesus loved me, but it certainly didn’t endear me to God.” “But that’s not how God views the cross, Jake. His wrath wasn’t an expression of the punishment sin deserves, it was the antidote for sin and shame. The purpose of the cross, as Paul wrote of it, was for God to make his Son become sin itself so that he could condemn sin in the likeness of human flesh and purge it from the race. His plan was not just to provide a way to forgive sin but to destroy it so that
