could it be that God becoming a man was a sacrifice?.....and in blindness and ingratitude we murdered him.
God came in the LIKENESS AS A man, a particular man, ie a Jewish man.
Jesus was not a Human man.
Men can become in the LIKENESS AS God.
Men do not become God.
In Heaven Gods Word came forth “out of His mouth.”
God “prepared” a Body for His Word.
God “sent” that prepared Body to Earth.
God “established” a Relationship between God and His Word, for men on Earth to know, Gods Word present with men, is Gods presence with men.
Pretty handy...for God to send forth His Word out of His mouth, in the LIKENESS AS AN Earthly man......since it was precisely Earthly men, God wanted (Earthly men, SEE and HEAR His Word).
Remember how angry God was, in the OT, toward men who were being TOLD Gods Word, and men complaining.....Hearing alone was not sufficient? They wanted to SEE God? God called them stiffnecked.
We all know, any natural Human man who SEES God “as He is” WILL instantly Die.
We all know, God has the POWER to APPEAR in a “LIKENESS”, that human eyes CAN SEE, and understand, they ARE in the Presence of God.
That “prepared body”, was “prepared FOR Sacrifice”...and “was Sacrificed”