Imagine you were asked to devise a method of saving mankind from sin,
pain, death and unending punishment. What would you come up with?
Intellectually we might even try to explain why we don't actually
deserve punishment or that morals are all man made or at least only
exist in our minds.

God's method of salvation consisted of His own Son becoming a sinless
man and suffering at the hands of His enemies. In an act of voluntary
submission to death on a cross and accepting the assignment of our sin
to Him He paid in full the debt that we owed and as a result purchased
eternal life.

What a method! Intellectually mind blowing, culturally strange and
essentially beyond belief to the natural mind but this the way of
salvation.

Paul argues the case in the verses we are considering.18-