The most fundamental truth of the Christian life is that God, a perfect being, sent a part of himself to die for us. Think about that for a moment. The only perfect being in the universe was willing to live a life as a man, and endure not just death, but be subjected to one the most brutal forms of execution of the time. And he did this for us. When you consider the fact that we had already been given life by this very same God and proceeded to turn out backs to him, his sacrifice seems even ...