Why?

Why did Jesus do it? 

No, not why did he come into the world as a baby. 

Before that.  Why did He make the stuff we call “matter” and then make people out of that stuff – people for whom it would be possible to experience pain and to die?  Why the "body" thing?

And why did He decree the death of that body for disobedience?  When it all went awry in the garden, God would have been perfectly free to snap the world back OUT of existence.  But, instead, He promised disobedience would have lethal consequences.  Having said so, it must be so, because God always keeps His promises.  Sin would be punished, because He said it would be. 

Why did He do that?  Why did God make the punishment for disobedience so severe?  He didn't have to do that.  Why did He?

Why?

Can I get back with you on that?

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