Peter McCartney’s Reviews > The Cross of Christ > Status Update

Honest acknowledgement of our wrongdoings is correct, and rightly leads to guilt - but this can only lead to despair if we do not immediately then go to the solution, the Cross. A proper diagnosis of our spiritual illness is essential, and a wilful ignoring of our sickly condition is deadly, but then we must go straight away to the remedy, to the Great Physician, to Christ. Sin, guilt, repentance, forgiveness, life.

Who sent Christ to the Cross?

"I did it, my sins sent Him there."
"He did it, His love took Him there."

tldr; the apostles and early christians didn't shy away from proclaiming and glorying in the cross, what the roman and jewish worlds deemed utter shame. the sacrifice of atonement is the centre of all history. the holy God who died to reconcile us to Him. the scorn of the cross is foolishness to many (see Nietzsche). faith in the Mediator, a revealed atonement, is christianity itself. we are reconciled to Him by it.