He Knows How The Story Ends

One of the great truths, central to the atonement, is the perfect foreknowledge of God.  We know from scriptures that God knows the end from the beginning.  He knows how the story ends. He knows what we will do, when and where we will sin.  

We cannot begin to fathom the pain Christ suffered as he atoned for the sins of the world.  Although we cannot comprehend his suffering, it is possible, in some small degree, to appreciate some of the process.  This process included the revelation of all sins from God to Christ.  How awful and shocking and horrifying, to the sinless Son of God, it must have to been to behold every last sin of every last one of us. Christ didn't remember our sins, he experienced them firsthand.

Christ paid the ultimate price for all sins, including the trillions of sins that would occur after his sacrifice in Gethsemane.  How was it possible for God or Christ to know what sins would occur in the future?  Because God the Eternal Father is an all-knowing God, He has a complete knowledge of all things, even things yet to come. He was perfectly able to include all the sins, past, present, and future, in the bitter cup, leaving out no sinner and leaving no sin unaccounted for.  

Christ not only experienced the overwhelming shock and sorrow of all the sins of mankind, but also endured the eternal punishment affixed to those sins.  Again his all knowing Father, author of the perfect plan,  unleashed the full fury of justice to meet its demands.

We can show reverence to the Savior for His sacred atonement without sensationalizing his suffering, but instead recognizing the infinite power of God to account for and atone for all of our sins.