““So, God wanted to prove his love for us, and we needed to see it. This point helps us to understand that God the Father is not some bloodthirsty deity whose anger is only satisfied by the blood of his Son. He didn’t need to see Christ’s death. We did: God does not accept anything in exchange or relent on account of something which Christ does. If Christ substitutes for sinful man in the experience of his passion, he does so only to enable men and women themselves to experience again the compassion of God. It is not that God then resumes being compassionate; rather, the human person is then free to accept God’s love. All in all, [salvation] changes us, not God.50””
