It may be that the reason that God so obviously needed to send Christ was for a reason that we have yet to discover. Of course, most people would suggest that it is because God can't be near sin, but then God has been near us the whole time, as well as Satan. The question then remains, what was it about Jesus's death and ressurection that is such a powerful aspect of the salvation message?
This is just a musing, but I wonder if it has more to do with the power of death over us than about our sin per se. Death is, almost without a doubt, the primary driving force in our lives (the underlying cause of the basic drives that we have). Food, shelter, water, companionship, all of these are to drive away death. Death, as the Bible ventures is the result of sin, therefore is in a sense not natural to humans. In sin, we lose our connection with the divine and thus are brought more into the realm of nature, which does include death.
With death reigning over us, it is impossible for us to overcome this drive and restore God to his rightful place in our lives. With God, our needs are met, balance is restored, and joyful reflection is ours in its fullest. But the need to avoid death clouds all of this. We recognize we were not meant for the grave, but helpless to avoid it, thus our lives are caught in the hopeless cycle of avoiding the unavoidable, which distracts us from our true purpose.
Enter Christ. By dying, he enters into death, accepts all that it entails, braves the final frontier and is able to prove that God's power stretches even beyond the grave. His is a path we are meant to follow and in the knowledge that we will follow that path we are set free. We now know in part, but then we will know fully and so we will be able to fully overcome death, even as Christ did.
