This movie has forced me to contemplate, out of all the solutions available to God, why did horrific brutality and torture of His Son have to be the "best solution" to the sin problem? How does Jesus getting whipped and spit upon and beaten and crowned with thorns and having his innocent hands and feet pierced in violent crucifixion --how and why is that any benefit to me?

So why the need for horrific violence against gentle Jesus to ensure my salvation and make the universe safe from sin?

I believe the answer is partially this --Jeffry Dahmer was a serial killer who homosexually raped his victims then cut up their body parts and ate them. He was arrested and went to prison, and while there, he was visited by a pastor who gave him Bible studies, and he became a Christian. A few months later he was stabbed by a fellow inmate, and he died from his injuries. Because he repented of his sins and became a Christian, we have every reason to believe Dahmer will be heaven.

If some of his victims also end up being saved, how can they possibly feel safe around Dahmer? What if he meets them at some future time on some planet, all alone, just him and them? How can they ever possibly feel safe in a very vast universe, knowing they could eventually end up running into the person that used to be their tormenter?

Part of God's problem here is helping the victims feel SAFE when God also saves the predator and puts them in the same place at the same time with their previous victims. I believe that is why even Christians have to DIE. The Jeffry Dahmer who raped and ate his victims won't even have the same physical body as the Dahmer who will be in Heaven. God will be able to reassure the victims in Heaven that the predators who also stand before them are not even the same people --the predator died and the saint now lives, even though there are resemblances of physical appearance.

The second part of God's solution to the victim's cry and demand for JUSTICE is where the brutality of the cross comes in. Dahmer’s victims will feel that God has betrayed them, that he had not been punished enough for the horrible things he did to them.

At that point I believe that God will show them the movie of Christ's torture and  say "Is that punishment enough for Jeffry’s sins against you? Someone WAS severely punished for the evil committed against you, and that someone was my son! If I had done this to Jeff, would this have satisfied your desire for JUSTICE? Would the horrors of the cross be punishment enough to satisfy you?"

At that point I think every victim will be able to say that the brutality of the cross would truly be "full payment" for any evil someone had ever done against them. Once that point is established, I believe Jesus will say that by the power of SUBSTITUTION, he traded places with the predator, so the predator also can have a chance at salvation.

And just in case someone still resists and says that isn't fair, I believe the Lord will "part the veil" and show how all of us at some point in our lives were "predators" that hurt others in some way. If his substitution is fair on our behalf, then we will be led to acknowledge that his substitution is fair to save even the worst repentant predator among us.

Hence, the brutality of the cross is absolutely necessary to satisfy the need for JUSTICE for those who have ever been victims at the hands of very cruel people.