Amy.G said:
I don't understand what you mean by God "allowing" Christ to die. Christ IS God. He CHOSE to die in my place. That's why the cross means everything.
allow me to post what I mean...
When Christ was on earth there was but one will. That will was to serve the Father.
These are some verses from John
38For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.
28Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him
34“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
42Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me.
30By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.
Did God want the Son to die in my place, even though the Son was not guilty?