You are a really confused person. Taking part of teh whole and leaving out the part one needs. You missed teh bit about"sacrifice", You cannot save yourself. Our sin requires payment, that payment was always made in blood. Without Our Lords sacrifice there is no payment, so without it you die, in you sin, the payment is your death, there is no life in your death. Its like going to court for a prison sentence, than someone offers to pay the price for you, so you wont have to go. howbeit you have rejected that payment so prison is your only option.
I have no idea where you got your theology from but you left out teh important bit. Glad you are on te h"spiritual" path but you gone too far.
The sacrifice which the character made was to SET AN EXAMPLE for you so you can go and do likewise.
It is about sacrificing your own flesh. It is about becoming a living sacrifice by following the example of the living sacrifice. It is about being the Light of the world by following the example of the light of the world. . It is about being the Bread of life by following the example of the bread of Life. It is about being the Truth by following the example of the Truth and by living in the TRUTH. It is about being the one who forgives and understands those who are blind deaf and dumb.
Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
which is your reasonable service.
ALL WILL DIE whether it is for their OWN SINS or not. 1 Cor 15:22 For as in Adam
all die,...
No man can die for the sins of another in the sense of taking physical death, foolishness and stupidity away from anyone.
Jesus death on the cross never stopped anyone else from dying or being stupid fools.
No man can take away the consequences of your actions from you. Every person will REAP what they SOW. If you sow to the flesh you will reap corruption. If you worship idols you will reap the consequences of that action. If you worship a false Christ you will reap the consequences of that action.
All of us can "spiritually die" in the sense of setting an example to follow by becoming the "servant" who is despised and rejected of men, perceived to be a liar, evil and of the devil for speaking nothing but TRUTH.
All of us can die to our own flesh by allowing the SPIRIT of TRUTH to LIVE though us to overcome the flesh instead of thinking you need to wait till after you are dead and buried to be able to overcome the sin and darkness within you.
Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
The above scripture and others like it are still in the bible. Do you Christians ignore it or think it has become null and void and no longer relevant or what? Has the TRUTH suddenly become a LIE to you ? Do you want to believe you won't need to die for your own sins because someone seduced you into thinking that someone else died for you so have no need to suffer the consequences of your own actions and you will not reap the consequences of what you sow?
Think again. Believing in Jesus and calling him Lord will not save you IF you do not FOLLOW HIS EXAMPLE and do the same as he did which is to overcome sin and DEATH in your own flesh. You overcome your own spiritual death through DEATH to the flesh which loves to worship its idols and live in idolatry and religious hypocrisy. No one is going to do it for you.
Luke 6:46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
Matt 7:21-23..................... I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
I have not rejected any payment. I pay the price for my own actions daily. I accept the consequences of my own actions daily and always will. I do not expect anyone else to face the consequences of my actions. I face my own consequences as you will also face yours whether you want to kid yourself that someone else "paid your price" or not.
LIFE to Wisdom within you comes through DEATH to foolishness within you.
LIFE to TRUTH within you comes through DEATH to the deceptions within you.
Following an idol and wishing he would "drop in" out of the sky, will never bring you to TRUTH. It will cause you to remain in your delusions.