One question for Christians

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This is God's way of showing you what it cost. In order for us to understand we have to relate. We understand tremendous physical pain and a horrible death. Now we can somewhat understand the Spiritual cost of Atonement. In that it wasn't just an after thought or something as easy as flipping on a switch. There was a great cost. This is the sacrifice. Not the physical death you all keep asking about, but in what the physical death and beating represented.
As a result of this understanding, then one can phathom why God's grace and mercy does not extend to them in their own pride. (God humbled Himself to make the sacrifice, in turn we must humble ourselves to accept it.)

A halfway decent writer could represent this concept without needing to go through the whole rigmarole. It is astounding to me that the writers of the bible A: were not capable of this, and B: thought it would not be enough.