A person wrote-
The important thing is that forgiveness is something given. The giver can choose to forgive or not and whether it is conditional..
That is true. If my son broke a window in our house by throwing a rock through it i could
choose to forgive him (and i would) i would also have the
conditional option of making him pay for the replacement or paying for it myself. To pat the price myself would free him from the debt bu the cost would have been born by me.
That is the same principle with Attonment. The cost of a broken window is the debt i pay for my son.
The cost of breaking a commandment ( which we have all done) is death. God has decided to pay that debt for us in his own person.
No blood needs to be weighed out. To say that blood must be shed to buy forgiveness implies that your god is bound by some higher rule making authority.
When God identified Himself to Moses as
I am
he was identifying an amazing reality about His person. Eternal, ageless, omnipotant. omnipresent, etc. The qualitative nature of God is reflected in this statement. It is a statement that shows him to be the perfect judge of the value of all htings as creator and sustainer. In our human appraisal of things we fail to understand the true value of things whether it be God, ourselves our sin , forgiveness or whatever.
When humans reason together they can all agree on a certiain value of a thing but just because we decide that a thing has a certain value that does not mean we are correct. there is a higher judgment of values and God as
I am
understands the value of all things in a perfect wisdom.
If sin did not requuire attonment ( and i mean the highest and true attonment of Christ ;THE ATTONMENT), then god would have in mercy paid other that cost for us. As it is God is only bound according to His own nature and true judgment of things and as God, who is THE AUTHORITY knowingthe true value of things has understood us, our sin and the perfect and true conditonal cost of our forgiveness. It is a matter of undimished understanding of the value of things acording to the eternal reality of the unchanging nature of God who is the I am . This says somthing about the value of our forgiveness as well.