We must remember first and foremost Christ’s passion and death was the sacrifice offered in satisfaction for Adam and Eve’s original sin. But it was also for the sins of all repentant men and women for all future generations, because even as noted in other texts, Christ cutting his finger and shedding one drop of blood would have been enough to atone for Adam and Eve’s sin and the sins of all future sins of men and women who were sorry for their personal sins, because of his infinite dignity as God. He died on the cross and allowed himself to be tortured in such a horrible way to illustrate the absolute horror of sin and how much it offends God. God cannot truly be hurt by anything but he can take offense by the disrespect through sin of one of His creatures who He deigned to create from nothing!
The other reason for the passion and horrible torturous death of Christ was to have the maximum impact on the emotions of the maximum number of men and women to influence them to come into the church and thereby save their souls. In my opinion, most of Christ’s wounds were to illustrate only the damage of original sins, we the church, as his mystical body (1 Corinthians 12:12,37) or as part of that mystical body that is his bride (Ephesians 5:25), and the sufferings of martyrs, clerics and everyday normal good Catholics (laity) bear the damage of all the other sins of repentant mankind. This, I think, is the biggest lie perpetrated by modernists, in trying to change the words of consecration to say Christ died “for all” instead of “for the many.” So, if Christ did not die for all men’s sins, just the penitent ones, who paid for all the rest of the men’s sins? The men and women that committed them of course, in hell. To satisfy the offense to Gods infinite dignity (even though He gave them the Catholic church, the sacrament of baptism and the sacrament of penance to have their sins forgiven) there is only one just penalty – an infinite one. The mass and the Eucharist are how we are “grafted into Christs body” (John 15:5) to share the truth, his passion, his life and his way (John 14:6). Because of this if we are good members of the catholic religion will share his resurrection.
A final word on hell, at least for this blog. Like I’ve said in other blogs, I do not think God will just turn on the furnace and throw all the bad people in. There own evil will compel them to fight wars and create evil that will turn a place with an environment like heaven in to something equivalent to a scorched earth radioactive hell hole as one might expect after an atomic war, where the inhabitants will be forced to live in a hell hole of their own design. It will be a place where they will not only contemplate their offense against God for all eternity but eventually their own selfishness that led to the stupidity which turned an otherwise “palatable” hell into a place of unending unbearable pain. Those that contributed to their being there like evil popes and other prelates such as leaders (some of whom were former Catholic priests and Catholic monks) of the protestant reformation will be tortured even more by souls they lead to hell.
Traditional Thomistic Catholic 