There must be some reason why [Christ] was allowed to suffer and to endure; why it was necessary that he should give up his life a sacrifice for the sins of the world.... In these reasons we and all the world are intimately concerned; there is something of great importance in all this to us. The whys and wherefores of these great events are pregnant with importance to us all.

President John Taylor. Journal of Discourses, 10:115-16 as found in Tad R. Callister, The Infinite Atonement. 2000. p.11