Clear and Present Decision- Sacrifice and Mercy

A train of thought just came to mind regarding Jesus' sacrifice. I wonder if people would have more of an issue accepting this sacrifice if it was not a record of events from thousands of years ago, but was instead something that happened on judgement day. I just imagined judgement day being essentially "For your sins you will be brutally put to death" and Jesus stepping up and saying "Do it to me in their place." Would it matter if either or both of you could return from death, if dying in this way would be happening first? Would shifting this event from a time far separated from one's own position to one immediate and direct make one consider more deeply what options there might be? It feels as though if such a directly witnessed sacrifice would give pause and a sacrifice separated from one's own position would not, then it is actually the inability to picture a timeless perspective that allows for such a thing to seem like a reasonable price, because it might be said that from a timeless perspective that this decision to accept this sacrifice and the event are all happening now, just as much as anything else is happening now.

What if one had to be the one driving the nail's into Jesus' form in order to benefit from salvation? What if in the grand scheme it ended up being one's own self on the cross? What if it was your child and not God's that was sacrificed? Are any of these scenarios sufficient to make one consider more deeply how mercy might thread through that which is already written? I know personally that feeling the weight of this sacrifice as it stands is plenty for me to have considered it deeply and written numerous possible permutations, with varying perspectives and templates, that might satisfy both written record and mercy. While I have a difficulty picturing many things, and a kind of dissociation from much in the day to day world, I have not found difficulty in picturing these events in the Bible, and as such this notion of imagining what one might do if witnessing these events directly rather than reading about them is not far fetched from my perspective.

This line of consideration does not feel far fetched or meaningless from the perspective of faith either, as God showed how an alternative solution might be found with Abraham and Isaac in Genesis 22. There is certainly an echoing effect at play with the similarities in these two stories, but it seems that in this day and age, because these words have been written off events many years ago, their outcomes feel fixed in the mind's of nearly all readers. This is reminding me of what I wrote regarding the heavens and even the first female referenced in Genesis 1, each having been mentioned and then left unmentioned for a time, causing mental structures to form in each reader, even if only subconsciously, because additional details were not provided/written. Jesus' sacrifice feels much more difficult to find a technically satisfactory solution, that also possesses mercy, for because so much more is written regarding the scenario. Personally there was even a decent timeframe where I just figured "screw this timeline altogether" and I imagined myself time traveling and changing events entirely. As I have continued to consider though, I realized that each could be satisfied- validity and mercy- but the details not written directly on the page, those details that each reader has naturally established in their own mind as part of the story in order to fill in the gaps between the details that are written, would need to be adjusted. I wrote of this specific solution in more detail here:

https://songoflovepiecesofeight.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-day-of-lord-in-4-parts.html

As I write this I am also picturing the seat swapping scenario that I wrote of, regarding control of reality, where the one in the best seat trades places with the one in the worst seat and this happens over and over, as often as necessary. It could be that in a sense I am improving my own situation, for a couple of seat swaps down the line, without even realizing it, but this is unconfirmed and unclear and is not my aim. My aim is to consider how Jesus' role in this story can be improved- where I can offer a structure that Jesus can agree to, if so inclined, from where I am and with what few resources I have at my disposal, or planning on how I can take even more direct steps when The Gifts of The Holy Spirit become available in full. I plan to continue to do this, whenever inspired, until Jesus directly says I need not anymore, either because it was never necessary, I have already been successful in these efforts and it's time to see the results, or the time to see these agreements planted and blooming firsthand is upon us.