Why did God need Jesus to be killed?

[Machadaynu]

Not much to add to the title I suppose.

It's just never made sense to me that an omnipotent God would need to do anything he didn't want to, therefore he must have wanted to have Jesus killed.

He could have forgiven us without him being killed - or he isn't omnipotent.

He could have made a world that remained without sin, rather than letting Satan mess this one up in the first week - or he isn't omnipoitent

He could have invented another way of making a symbolic gesture that didn't involve murdering his son - maybe he could have made the earth spin backwards or something to signify a new start.

I just don't understand God thinking "well, I don't need to murder my son, but I think I will anyway because that will show people how loving I am"

So why did he claim to need to have Jesus killed?

Depends what he means by virgin birth I suppose. There are two versions, one is simply that Mary was a virgin when Jesus was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, the other (often in Catholic churches) says that Mary remained a virgin so was when he was born despite being married to Joseph. I do go with the first, though actually it doesn't matter a great deal to me, not in the way say the truth of the resurrection does.

I must read his book if he has mad hair though