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It would depend on how you wish to approach the question. It is true that there was no other way to save mankind from their sins. Given God's great love for His people, Jesus had no other choice if He was to save us from our sins.

Jesus was commanded by the Father to sacrifice himself in order to save mankind from their sins. No one forced Jesus to obey that command, including the Father.

So in another way, yes, Jesus could have chosen to leave mankind in sin and not die on their behalf, but he loved us too much to let that happen.

He didn't have a choice in the way people would be saved or the way he needed to die in order to save us. But he did voluntarily choose to obey the Father's command in order to save his people. He wasn't dragged against his will to die upon the cross. The Gospels makes it clear that all the way to his death, Jesus was both in control and could have stopped it if he so desired. "Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels? How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen thus?" (Matthew 26:53-54). It is his willingness to die on our behalf that is a part of the precious gift that he offered us.

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