Christ is supposed to exist and act as a physical representation of God on a human and individual level, as relating to him in this way facilities a greater or closer understanding of the divine within the framework and incumbent of our feeble human forms.
It is hard to explain clearer, it is like relating and experience God’s divinity on an individual and human level, as our personal and individual selves can act in a manner that disinhibits or impedes this universal oneness with our creator, and that is what the crucifixion of Jesus represents to me.It would then be like a form of enlightenment to attain this state of realization that our mortal coils are what separate us, though I do not think this realization is opposed to individuality as in some regards you could say we all have our own individual truths, in some way. I think that being one with god or in direct communication with the Holy Spirit expresses itself in different ways dependant on the person.
The analogy of Jesus is kinda weird when you think about it, God basically sacrificed himself to himself so that he could save himself from ourselves. I guess I am almost not technically a Christian because I think that Jesus was still a human man, like many others and that he had achieved quite possibly a form of enlightenment and wanted to best explain and provide this to others and quite possibly martyred himself as a result. I mean understanding why Jesus was crucified is a fundamental aspect of Christianity but it just seems like it is made to be the end all of Christianity and the main purpose or point of it, which basically just serves to state that “Jesus died for our sins” and we must somehow be shamed and reminded of this on a constant basis, but in a way that feels too much like lashings and fire, brimstone, and oppressive. I do not think that is what Jesus intended, and it feels a little draconian to me at times, but it is like a form of sadomasochism that people like I guess.