Was the crucifixion that Jesus endured the worst possible suffering a human could experience?

What was stressing Jesus?

For what he did...absolutely.

Evidence?

We know that God is Love..... What is the greatest desire of Love....... It is "to love and to be loved."

Here is God's dilemma..... His greatest desire CANNOT be created. Love cannot be created. Love has to have a choice or it is not love. If God creates a bunch of robots that love Him, that is not love....that is manipulation. Love MUST have a choice.

God created man in His image with the capacity to love but, we have to choose to do so. We were not preprogrammed to choose to love God, we are given the choice. This is the hard part for God, He had to give us a choice......which started with the two trees in the garden of eden; also, God had to put a safety net in place which is the Lamb of God that was slain before the foundation of the world....so that if we choose not to love God, we get another chance to choose to love Him.

Love does not want or desire to be hated or with others that hate Him, or speak evil of Him......At the end of all things, God will choose only those that chose to know Him and to love Him.

God wants a relationship with you VickyK, God already loves you, He desires for you to choose to love Him, too. He wants all of us to know Him and to choose to love Him. He already knows us and has chosen to love us.

God created all the universes, galaxies, solar systems, beings, the unseen and the seen, yet.....He wants to be known and loved by us, the ones He created in His image...to be joint heirs, to rule and reign with Him....to love Him and be loved by Him.

I choose to loooooooove God with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength! His love is amazing!

well amen ,

Love is not a choice.

I don't think he experienced the most possible pain (simply due to the "one-upper-effect," that says that even if he felt the greatest pain, couldn't you just take a thorn and poke him with it, increasing his pain?)

I do, however, feel that he was the most severely punished considering he went to hell without ever committing a sin.

I disagree. God is the truth and we should all be sensitive about him.

Yes, men cursing God, not God cursing his Son. The sacrifice for repentance, not replacement. The Son being viewed as the snake by men, not by his Father. See how the scriptures have been sistorted.

God having forsaken his Son, regardless of how short a time, is widely taught in Christian circles and to abandon someone is to forsake him.

I told you that our Lord quoted that Psalm because the religious leaders, the "experts" the "teachers" of scripture who were mocking him knew that God doesn't forsake a righteous man in times of trouble. The scribes are the ones who viewed Jesus as separated or abandoned by God.

Actually Lucy,
As we grow in the knowledge of Christ, we should understand fully his torment,

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death Phil.3:10

And Jesus was viewed as a sinner, but not by his Father,

we know that this man is a sinner. Jn.9:24

They replied, If this man were not a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you. Jn.18:30

And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors. Mk.15:28

If you are looking for a sentimental feeling which you can "fall" in & out of, you'll never grasp the depth of God's love.
Demonstrative love is a choice. A love that saves the universe is an active choice.

And I'm showing you brother,....Christ being judged and executed shows us the rejection of God by men. The hatred of God himself by men. You're misunderstanding the free will offering of Christ as opposed to their evil intent.

Again, you're confusing the wrath of God as opposed to chastisement. Please read and understand Heb.12:5-13

He's saying just as the Father overlooked former sins, the Son in his divine forbearance overlooked those who were sinning against him. People who spit on him, mocked him, slapped him, killed him....were sinning against him.

It pleased the Father because

For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. 1Pet.2:20

And it's necessary to understand that our dear Loed did not need to learn obedience for himself, but only as an example to us.

Yes phil, whosoever believes that we have sinned against the Lord and confess our sins and repent of them will have eternal life.

And phil,
Did you read the verse just before 1 Peter 3:18 and the verse just after Heb.2:17?

where does it say that in the dictionary?

Do you love Jesus Christ, VickyK?

Does the whole world love Jesus Christ?

Some do, some don't because they have CHOSEN to love Him, or CHOSEN not to love Him.

LOVE HAS TO HAVE A CHOICE, love is NOT preprogrammed. If the choice is taken away from love then it is manipulation and NOT love.

We aren't confined to modern English dictionaries. As fallen creatures we have tainted ideas about what love is.
Until we encounter Love himself we don't have a supernatural reference point.

John 15:
12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

This kind of love can't be seen through without commitment and commitment is a choice.

1 Cor 13
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love is not a choice.

Can we think of anything worse than being convicted willingly of every human sin of every human on earth though he was perfectly innocent, as well as suffering through the physical crucifixion? What other human do you know would do that?

The worst about it was bearing the weight of our sins. The Infinitely Holy and Righteous and Pure became flesh and bore the weight of our sins