WHY was Jesus cricified?

[RobbyPants]

And you've been answered multiple times. God tells us to forgive because we've been forgiven ourselves.

No definition of "forgive" that I can find involves a payment. It's a flat-out cancellation, going forward. God didn't do that, unless you're saying Jesus' death on the cross was unrelated.

Forgive

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verb (used with object), for·gave, for·giv·en, for·giv·ing.
1.
to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
2.
to give up all claim on account of; remit (a debt, obligation, etc.).
3.
to grant pardon to (a person).
4.
to cease to feel resentment against: to forgive one's enemies.
5.
to cancel an indebtedness or liability of: to forgive the interest owed on a loan.

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If you answered those questions, we'd see again that justice is a matter of opinion. Yours is different from god's.

And God's notion of justice is arbitrary, and the whole charade was unnecessary.

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Christ didn't symbolically pay our sin debt, He functionally paid it.

By dying and then coming right back? How is that a payment?

If people had the ability to resurrect their goats, do you think God would have been appeased if they brought their burnt offerings back from the dead three days later, so they didn't have to lose one of their goats (i.e. sacrifice their goat).