The Christian atonement dilemma is highlighted by the question: “Did God kill His Son or require the death of His Son as a pre-condition to His forgiving humanity?”

Ever since the existence of sin in the world, death has been an inevitable reality that humanity has never been able to accept gracefully. Yet, notwithstanding the burglar bars, security fences, defensive and offensive weapons, hospitals and myriad human inventions, death can be at best postponed…