Darkness and the Dawn

Why did it please God that His Son was brutalized? Why does a loving God allow us to hurt so deeply? What made Jesus'' death any different from thousands who died just as He did?

Darkness covered the earth that day. The sun fled. From noon until three, the darkness of death hovered over the hill where the Son of God was dying. As Christians, we know the story well?the nails in His hands, the thorn...