Is it egotistical to think that a God would die for you?

John 1:14

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The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:1

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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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It is egotistical for you to thing God must have your views, motivations, and goals. That is egotistical to the point of : Dumb

If God made you in His Image you first have to find out why He did that, then the rest is cooking pasta

God didn't really die. It was a short sleep. Dying means never to get up again. It's not a sacrifice when they come back to life.

It is egotistical to answer from emotion before you have facts for a basis.
Is it true that God made us in His Image ? And why? Without those questions and facts you are stewing in egotism.

Notice that your 2 basic assumptions are totally wrong...

This is Pope Benedict

" { Duns Scotus ] held that the Son of God would have been made man even if humanity had not sinned. He says in his "Reportatio Parisiensis": "To think that God would have given up such a task had Adam not sinned would be quite unreasonable! I say, therefore, that the fall was not the cause of Christ's predestination and that if no one had fallen, neither the angel nor man in this hypothesis Christ would still have been predestined in the same way" (in III Sent., d. 7, 4). This perhaps somewhat surprising thought crystallized because, in the opinion of Duns Scotus the Incarnation of the Son of God, planned from all eternity by God the Father at the level of love is the fulfilment of creation and enables every creature, in Christ and through Christ, to be filled with grace and to praise and glorify God in eternity. Although Duns Scotus was aware that in fact, because of original sin, Christ redeemed us with his Passion, Death and Resurrection, he reaffirmed that the Incarnation is the greatest and most beautiful work of the entire history of salvation, that it is not conditioned by any contingent fact but is God's original idea of ultimately uniting with himself the whole of creation, in the Person and Flesh of the Son."

Nonsense.
Jesus' life and sacrifice became necessary as a result of the challenge and allegations made by the resistor in the third chapter of Genesis. Note that in vs 15, the rebel's demise is foretold as well as the sacrifice made by the seed.

And to answer CI, it is (was) a sacrifice. Satan spared no amount of pain and humiliation in Jesus' execution. An execution undeserved because Jesus had lived his life without sin.

You pretty much nailed the OP's personality, though.

Ego is forcing yourself on others while abusing them with charges of barbarism.
Jesus acted from love. You are barbaric and so all looks barbaric to you.

But this is backwards. All things are possible to God, What you see as impossible shows a limitation of either will (=love) or of intellect on your part. That God doesn't do what you THINK He should, He being omniscient, you being puny and self-absorbed -- shows the limits of your thought.

And that is of necessity, speaking of necessity.

But you avoid the whole question !! What does omnipotence have to do with it ?
And how can you apply 'most likely' to God ?? God is responsible for all else, there is no influence that makes likelihood even applicable !!

Star Trek -- figures you have no mental signpost except the movies.

Is it egotistical to think that a God would die for you?...
Jesus preached that we should develop a humble character with little self-pride"

Most folks get the version of JC's crucifixion in the King James version of the New Testament. Not a terribly disinterested coverage, to say the least.

Politics in its fundamental form - took the Romans years to realize that until Constantine made believing it law - with terrible consequences for nonbelievers. In a word, Peter was Jesus' top salesman. I like the tale of Constantine's conversion - the vision thing.

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Is it egotistical to think that a God would die for you?...
Jesus preached that we should develop a humble character with little self-pride"

Firstly, Jesus wasn't God, he made that clear many times, eg-
"I am going to the Father, for my Father is greater than I" (John 14:28 )
"Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone" (Luke 18:19)
"Only God knows when Judgement Day will be, I don't know myself" (Mark 13:32)

Secondly, Jesus wants us to be kool, calm, goodnatures and fearless, that's what "humble" means in that context.
All true Christians are like Arnie's Terminator, soft and fleshy on the outside but with an inner skeleton of pure titanium..-
"For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power.." (2 Tim 1:7)
"..that you may stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured" (Col 4:12)