Colt
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You are still quoting the after-cross speculation by Paul about the cross.Jesus hadn’t died and rose from the dead yet. His ministry and teaching was all proof that He was indeed the Messiah, God the Son who the Prophets spoke about. God the Father had been revealing this from the beginning and the time was right for Jesus to show up.
“But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.”
Galatians 4:4-7 NKJV
Dyeing and rising from the dead wasn't the original Gospel, it was proof of his divinity and authority to teach what he had been teaching. Obviously you can't acknowledge that.
The Father was already forgiving in the original gospel. Killing Jesus was the will of the devil, turning the other cheek was the will of the Father. Its how Father and Son decided to part ways with Judaism and bridge the rejection into the West.