@aquine Said
Surely you have greater understanding of atonement than you have exhibited in this post.
Christ's death has made the eternal, everlasting and sufficient atonement for all sin. If we were to somehow apply your mode of justice then every human on earth would be at the very least summonsed to appear before a pre-trial committee, as all have sinned and fall short of the glory of god.
No, He doesn't accept bribes, since everything belongs to Him anyway, with what could we brine Him? Similar with indulgences, which are really only bribes to the Priesthood to let things slip by unnoticed, something they have neither the right nor the power to do.
As far as ransoms go, then in a sense He does. In the sanse that like equals like (an eye for an eye). However the only real ransom that has ever interested Him was the ransom price needed to buy humans back out of sin. Again the like for like principle came inot play, and so to ransom man from captivity to Satan and sin, only one thing would match what was lost. It had to be a perfect life, in exchange for a perfect life.
So who could pay that ransom? No-one son or daughter of mankind could because they all inherit sin from Adam and Eve, and therefore are not equivalent to the perfect life that was lost by Adam and Eve.
No it was something that had to be arranged.
Obviously His own son would have been the first to volunteer, but who else could God trust anyway? He had already seen a number of angels turn against Him, led by the one who became known as Satan, but He had worked alongside His son in creating everything, His son being the first of His creations.
So it was decided, His son would have to come down to the earth as a perfect human. However, first His son had to be trained, and so he was given the Nation of Israel to nurture and protect from Satan as far as he could. That gave him a lot of experience of what humans were like, how they suffered, their possible strengths and weaknesses.
However they both knew what he was up against. A powerful spirit creature, who would do all in his power to nullify the ransom by dragging God's own son down from perfection.
Jesus, as the son became had to be allowed to grow up as a perfect human, ignorant of his previous life, and so a strong Godly couple had to be found, and the woman had to be a virgin so no-one could doubt his origin with any real justification. Hence the sons life force was implanted into Mary's womb and the perfect child was conceived.
When he came of age (30 for Jews at that time) he was sent into the wilderness and his old memories were put back into his mind, after he had survived Satan's temptations. It took him a while (40days) to assimilate so many millennia of memories, but he did, and the rest, as they say,is history. The sacrifice was successfully performed with the unwitting aid of Satan's followers, and the ransom paid giving man back the right to perfect human life once again, only to be "repaid" however after God's kingdom was prepared and cleansed of all Satanic influence. This could not be done straight away as God's Justice also meant that Satan had to have sufficient time to try to prove his challenge so everything was, after the first century "put on hold" with the truth only being protected to a limited extent until the time came.
According to prophecy we are now very much in the final stages of that preparation now so soon the earth will be cleansed, the ransom will be applied, and mankind will once again be perfect.