“Yea Infinite and Eternal”
“Fourth, the atonement of Jesus Christ is infinite because Christ himself is an infinite being. From his mother, Mary-a mortal woman-he inherited mortality, the capacity to die. On the other hand, he inherited from his Father, the Almighty Elohim, immortality, the power to live forever.
The suffering and sacrifice in Gethsemane and on Golgotha were undertaken by a being who was greater than man, one possessing the powers of a God. This was no human sacrifice, not even simply an act of a wise and all-loving teacher. It was more, infinitely more, than an example of submission or a model of humanitarianism. He did for us what no other being could do.
Yes, it is true that ’there was no other good enough to pay the price of sin. He only could unlock the gate of heav’n and let us in.’ (’There Is a Green Hill Far Away, ’ Hymns, no. 194.) But it is equally true that what Jesus of Nazareth accomplished in and through the awful atonement is beyond human comprehension; it is the work of an infinite personage. (Commentary 1:236-38, italics in original.)”