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[quote=Anonymous]There is no infallible argument.  I had many years of Catholic school, and they said that the mechanism by which the crucifixion and resurrection operated to save humanity was a mystery.  There are a couple of different ways to explain it, but no one really knows, and maybe it isn't even just one thing.

My favorite analogy, though, was this: imagine that you see a badly wounded animal.  The animal needs your help, but if you try to help it, it will lash out and hurt you.  But you do it anyway, and are wounded.  The wounding wasn't necessary to balance some cosmic scales, it was the result of the animal's pain and fear, causing it to attack the one trying to help it.  Or the way that a drowning person can pull a rescuer under.  Humanity is the wounded animal or drowning swimmer, in need of rescuing, but because of its brokenness, it lashed out and killed the one trying to save it.  God knew we would do this, but loved us so much that he did it anyway, knowing he would suffer and die.  
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