One problem that I think people have with this Dan is the teaching that Jesus died a painful death for our salvation. Why? Couldn't God just forgive our sins and save us? Why did Jesus have to be killed for this to happen? The common answer is that God so loved the world..... But again, if He so loved the world why did He need to send His son to die for us? I have thought about this for most of my 65 years and find it fundamentally incoherent. Perhaps you could shed some light without simply repeating the same dogma that God did this out of love. I can see other reason why Jesus would have conquered death for all to see.