In life and at the point of death Christ was the ultimate demonstrator of unselfishness. On the cross His thoughts and concerns were for others. Christ could have called ten thousand angels and yet He did not. The attraction is not in the manner in which Christ died. The attraction and magnetism of the cross is due to the person and purpose of the cross.
Greater love has no man than to lay down.
The survey of the cross of Christ has the power to touch even the hardest of hearts. There is no other way to Salvation but the way of the cross.