Homo Sapiens has been on earth for 100,000 years, and Heaven watched them suffer 98,000 years of disease, famine, natural disasters, and death before deciding to intervene. And the best way of doing that was to have a filthy human sacrifice in a remote part of Palestine.
The biblical God seems regularly to show a preference for what in human eyes is inconsiderable and weak. “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” “Blessed are the meek….Blessed are the poor in spirit.” Roman generals hated to be sent to Palestine, so remote and insignificant it was. Yet it was not to glorious Rome but to humble Palestine that God twice communicated His testament.
God did not “watch for 98,000 years,” for God is outside of time. What to us seems like past and future and present, He sees in one simultaneous vision. All humans from the ancient beginnings of the race who were men and women of good will, a deliberate and persevering resolve, were in His eyes blessed by the great event that divides human time – the crucifixion and resurrection of His Son – just as were those who came after that event. All one with God.
And, yes, it was a “filthy” sacrifice. To this day it seems a blasphemy to learned Muslims to hold that Allah could demean Himself, and limit Himself, by becoming embodied as a human being in history and then, far worse, being put to ignominious death in a disgusting way, and as a common criminal.
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