UNWILLINGNESS TO ATONE ADMITTED BY JESUS HIMSELF
Let us take it for granted that Jesus was really ready to sacrifice himself on the Cross, as the Church contends, by allowing himself to be betrayed into the hands of the enemy and though being a son of God, and the very God incarnate in human flesh succumbed to temptation due to human weakness only. Though hesitatingly he prayed God to save him from the enemy, but then finally left the matter to God’s will by words like “Nevertheless not as I will, but as Thou wilt”; Spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak”; “But for this cause came I unto the hour”: “And the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink?” (John 18:11)
Alright; he was however betrayed, rebuked, put on Cross, was spat up on, was pierced, scourged and what not, and subjected to all kinds of torments. Whatever was there for him to suffer, he had suffered. Every thing was finished. Every kind of torment and persecution had been resorted to. The time of breathing his last was fast approaching. There was only just a moment left yet for him to give up his ghost. But now a most remarkable point is, in those last moments, when all means of torture have been exhausted and when everything was finished (To take shelter under the term HUMAN WEAKNESS Jesus loudly cried and cried again “MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME?” (Matt. 27:46). Such words as “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?” said in the last moment and time after everything was finished, is a clear proof that Jesus was not willing for the crucifixion (Atonement). It was only the fulfillment of a pre-planned plot of the enemy and certainly not a sacred sacrifice decreed by God, as the Church seem to believe.
