WHY was Jesus cricified?

[John V]

No. I wasn't comparing the ability of God to the ability of humans. I was questioning why God commands us to forgive yet refuses to do so himself.

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

You, then asked a bunch of questions about what people would do to justify God's "justice". Your equivocation is false.

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

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I can recite several different permutations of the Christian view of how Christ's sacrificial atonement is supposed to work, but they make no emotional, logical or moral sense to me. If there were a god and he operated in such a way, then divine moral sense and human moral sense would have little to do with each other.

Hold on there, cowgirl. you don't get to claim your moral sense as equivalent to human moral sense. The large numbers of Christians across time and culture indicates that God's sense of justice is within the bounds of humanity's sense of justice. That it's nonsensical to you doesn't mean that it's nonsensical period.