It is not sensible or right ‘just because’ our God 'says it' is sensible and true; something makes sense because 'it is' sensible and true.
This sounds unthinkable ‘until’ you are talking to someone who has a God other than yours.
Abraham went out, as did Moses, and they did not receive the promises, this doesn’t make sense nor did it make God true to His word. It is only right and true 'because' our God will and does fulfill these promises[/u] (we believe). And this is not unreasonable because God has proved Himself trustworthy in other fulfillments and incidents to these two Patriarchs. It is not unreasonable, or nonsense if God has ‘already proved’ Himself able to fulfill and ‘make sense later’ of what He is saying. But it would be nonsense if it ‘never’ does make sense, even later on.
“By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that he who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them. By faith they passed through the Red Sea as though they were passing through dry land; and the Egyptians, when they attempted it, were drowned” (Hebrews 11:28-29)
The faith that was built on Gods previous revelation was given more empirical truth and sensible substance once they witnessed the Passover and Egyptians drowning in the Red Sea. So although lifting the knife over Isaac, and looking up at a snake coiled on a staff didn’t make much sense then, it does now because these things were fulfilled in Christ. As all things are and will be.
It is a stumbling block to those without reason, “but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God” (1 Corinthians 1:24). God is not going to make excuses for those who refuse reason, choose ignorance and even hate God, even while He was on the cross.Likewise, looking to the Son of Man "lifted up" was a stumbling block to the Jew and foolishness to the Greek. The Ransom works because God delares that it does...
Like I pointed out earlier: man can make up a thousand alternative arguments and theories to something all while the obvious one is right in front of them as this demonstrates the wisdom of God and the foolishness of man.Satisfaction, Penal Substitution, Christ as "scapegoat", Recapitulation, or the ideas of "moral influence" or "moral governmental" (or any combination of these or other views)
Although God ‘can’ indeed make anything work simply because God declares it, God has also said: “You will be comforted when you see how they live. Then you will know that everything I have done was done for a reason" declares the Almighty LORD” Ezekiel 14:23 Gods Word (or not done in vanity, or without cause, without payment, or which cost me nothing)“… the fact still remains that it only works because God declares it and accepts it” (Brenden)