Additionally, there’s a philosophical yuckiness about having your salvation contingent on your selfishness (hence sinfulness).
Of course, it never was contingent on it.

The question often causes tremendous cognitive dissonance when believers try to argue that it’s not selfish. Perhaps pride and a sense of moral superiority over non-believers (who are usually the ones asking the question) make this seem like a critical point to defend. Conceding it looks to be the way to reconcile it. Humility is apparently the answer. Fascinating.

Honestly, I don’t know.

It’s worth noting that he went willingly, out of love for us and love for His Father, whose will he was obeying.

To be really honest, I don’t think I would have stopped him (making the rather large assumption that I knew fully what was going on, that his death was to purchase the forgiveness for my sin).

Does that make me selfish? Probably.
I AM selfish – that’s why I need a Saviour. And I don’t love Jesus like I should or like he deserves.

That’s what makes the gospel beautiful. While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. God, being rich in mercy because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were still dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ.

Ultimately, I don’t think this is a choice God ever intended us to have. I would not have been able to stop him. He was on a mission that God had planned from the beginning of time. Jesus rebuked Peter as satanic when he tried to stop him (albeit for different reasons). “The Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many”. It was the whole reason why he took on flesh.

God never intended us to be able to stop him – he doesn’t ask us to wrestle with this dilemma, he has already done it all and now simply holds out the offer: “come home, brother, all will be forgiven. Follow me, know me, love me; because you are loved by me”.

I know this misses the point of the question, but I still thank God for it.
He knows that we are selfish, and so he sent his Son to save us.
He knows that we have nothing to offer him, and that the only way we can come to him is humbly receiving.
He knows that we can’t love him perfectly, so he didn’t wait for us to do that.

He reached out, because we never would have. Praise God for it, and come to Him while He will still let you.

If you were there with Jesus in his LAST days or weeks, knowing what would happen to him, and you had the power to influence his actions (he was apparently a person, after all) would you have saved him from being tortured and murdered by the Romans? If so, what of his great sacrifice? If not, would it have been selfish of you to let him suffer so that you could get your salvation?