it was a humiliation ritual for god where god displayed that he's actually more humble than any human being, especially when you consider that he created and rules the universe, and after we sinned he could have just wiped us all out, and he considered doing just that, but he spared noah, tried to start over with noah and his family, then noah gets out of the ark and gets drunk. he knew it'd fail and we'd keep sinning but for our sake he tried different ways of "starting over" and letting humans "turn a new leaf" through abraham and the establishment of israel, through giving the law, etc. ultimately yeah, all those attempts were shown that humans simply aren't capable of doing what's right when they have the choice of right and wrong they choose wrong. and choosing wrong has the punishment of death. so he, the creator and the ruler of the universe, had to become a man, live out the law that we can't, and then die even though he'd done nothing wrong, and then self resurrect to overcome the punishment, something we can't do. death overcomes us, god can't be overcome by death, and so god overcomes death. so he alone could pay the price for your sin and live to tell about it. and he humbled himself to do it willingly. riding on a donkey was a picture of that humility. all of us are too proud to do something like that. to ride a donkey as the king of the universe, let people we could kill with a single word beat us and nail us to a cross to suffer.
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