Which of the following three would show God’s Love to be the greatest:
- God forgives everyone’s sins, but only those who humbly accepts God’s forgiving them as pure undeserved charity, complete the transaction, so forgiveness takes place and they are thus saved. This is supported by Matt.18:21-35 the unmerciful servant (which might be explaining only the time prior to the cross) and Ro. 3:25 in the NIV translation especially.
- God sees to the torture, humiliation and murder of His son to somehow provide payment and/or substitution to forgive the sins of everyone so God can receive the help He needs to forgive everyone, with the add on idea the sinner has to believe this happened for him/her to be saved/forgiven.
- God, like any wonderful loving Father, has the Love to easily forgive all His Children, but also like any Loving Father, must try to Lovingly discipline His rebellious children for all the benefits of Loving disciplined correctly received can provide. Prior to the cross there was no way to Lovingly discipline His children and allow them to continue living (NIV Ro. :25), but after the cross, His forgiven children can humbly accept His forgiveness as pure charity and also be disciplined (Biblically punished), by being empathetically crucified with Christ.