Can anything that shows the world the Great Truths of the Bible be too explicit?
Yes, there may be those who express untoward interest in our loin-cloth wearing Savior suffering under the scourge of whips. But people have been misusing Jesus for their own purposes since His story began to be told.
No matter how disturbing, we here at
must never shy away from the unvarnished, un-expunged, uncompromising reality of the Bible.
Let's face it, there is a lot of content in its sacred pages that can be hard to present or explain to young children. But we know how important it is to train up a child right from an early age. If children can see how painful and gruesome Jesus' injuries were, they will fully understand how sinful they are because it required such bloodletting to save them.