Imagine you – not a thing but a divine person – bringing into existence a cosmos that will eventually be perfectly free of wrong-doing, disease and death; and within that cosmos a race of beings – humanity – that will reflect your image and character of love and righteousness. But in order for that to happen, an interruption called sin must take place. It must happen because you who knows everything, from the beginning to the end, sees that it happens. You’re not happy about it because you don’t want your creation to turn against you and have to suffer sin’s consequences. Knowing that humanity will decide to rebel against you and your ways; you, as a person, can’t help but feel the pain of rejection.

Nonetheless, if humanity is to come into being and your end goal of eternal perfection for it is to be reached, you know that your creation will have to go through the inevitable sin process to get there. As such, you, as a person, can’t help but feel painful, anguished frustration.

To somewhat mitigate your and humanity’s suffering, a plan is developed that will allow your creation to get past sin and reach perfection. However, the plan calls for a sacrifice. One of the other two of you – called the 2^nd person – who has always been with you and indeed is you in oneness, will have to become as a created being with all of humanity spiritually residing in him.

The 2^nd person will be mocked, tortured, separated from you, and made to become sin for the benefit of the whole of your creation. The plan, ultimately, is for the 2^nd person to pay the price for everyone that sin demands: an eternal death. For a loved one who has always been with you to have to agonizingly suffer in this way; you, as a person, can’t help but feel the heart-breaking pain of sorrow and grief.

Finally, imagine you – one with and in the 2^nd person – having lived an earthly, mortal life. That means it wouldn’t be a matter of you simply sympathizing with those made in your image. Living fully as human, having cloaked your divinity; you, as a person, couldn’t help but actually experience and always remember the psychological, emotional, physical, and spiritual pain of flesh and blood.