A person who has committed moral crimes ought to be punished, if they are not repentant of their evil deeds..
And like all other human beings i have done wrong things..
ok we have just established that we both agree that bad people ought to be punished
and we have agreed that we both have done those bad things.
ok this is not looking like a good picture for us am I right?
So we are under judgement and
we both know we are guilty but just before the judge condemns the two of us in the dock he pauses
We both know we are guilty and we both know we deserve what we are going to get.
Then he asks us are we interested in a pardon?
At this point. If you know you are guilty you are much more open to an offer of forgiveness.
and you can guess the rest.
The Judge took off his robe and got in the dock and took our punishment for us
so we can be set free;
Jesus is the only way he is the only one that can solve the problem.