I don’t think so.
If all He did was die, they He is nothing more than a martyr.
The Gospel includes a resurrection that says that death's authority died. The Gospel, IMV, is where God became flesh as an immigrant into this world and experienced what no King would even consider, the pain of humanity to redeem humanity from his ultimate destruction. (I think we all can see this world’s population destroying itself)
1) He came to live as we did. To experience what He never experienced
2) He came to save us from ourselves and to free us to a new level of living
3) He conquered the authority of Death, Hell and the Grave in His resurrection
4) He offers a new life with a new authority and a new way of living.
So the symbol of the Cross needs to be an empty Cross and maybe an empty grave? He has resurrected!
This symbolism of the resurrection is connected to law; knowledge of good and evil, being superseded. The symbolism was not about making a new law, that says all law is now obsolete, and faith is the way to righteousness, but the rather symbolism made a legal argument that made law obsolete by its own legal standards.
In the Old Testament there was no hell. After one died, they slept. There was no eternal damnation or punishment for a lifetime of sin, like we now have in Christianity. Instead, the extreme punishment for sin, due to the extreme violations of the law, was death in this life. Therefore, if one was killed for their sins, such as stoning for adultery, that was it. Killing by the law, was the ultimate punishment in this life, and the worse that could happen by the law. Killing paid your debt to the law and you could then sleep like the righteous.
The killing by the law, and then the resurrection of Jesus, had the significance in that Jesus, had paid the ultimate penalty for sin, by being killed. The twist was instead of sleeping, he was resurrected; conscious again, and therefore alive again, but was no longer under law, since he had already paid the ultimate price stated by the law.
The Resurrection was like a modern double jeopardy loophole in the law of good and evil, that superseded the law; was outside its legal jurisdiction. It would be like Jesus now had diplomatic immunity in the modern sense. A diplomat can break local laws and is immune. This double jeopardy loophole would create a political debate in Heaven, that divides the Angels; 2 to 1. It had the implication that law for righteousness had been fulfilled, by Jesus, by means of his rebirth and the break within the chain of law.
In Revelations, this political division of the Angels in heaven, turns nasty and leads to war in Heaven. Satan and a third of the Angels are thrown from heaven to the earth, since law was not longer condoned in heaven, due the legal loophole created by God for Jesus. However, the earthlings still grasped at the obsolete past of law, thinking it was still condoned in heaven. Law became the playground of evil; shady lawyers and genocide coded in the laws of tyrants.
If you look in modern USA, law now protects criminals more than their victims, in some Democrat run cities. Thou shall steal; merchandise, cars and now homes. But thou shall not put up a resistance or you will prosecuted. This is a sign of the change in law. Fake news supports this since it is legal to lie. They still believe in political punishment in this life via law; whimsical taboos via the law.
Jesus said, I did not come to bring peace, but rather division. When law was no longer condoned in Heaven; no common sanctioned path for law, law of man became more subjective and relative, such that people could not agree on anything. Relative law could benefit evil as well as good. Law from heaven was designed for only the righteous, but that connection was gone.
Consider this hypothetical scenario. Say we place someone on death row for mass murder and we legally kill them. Atheists law believes that death is the end of life. The medical examiner acknowledges their death, based on the best science. The killed inmate suddenly comes back to life, after being pronounced dead as a door nail, with many medical examiner checkups, over several days. What does the law say? This scenario is not in the law, since it is considered impossible and not ever thought to need addressing. The lawyers would debate and not be able to agree. This is sort of what happened after the resurrection. It broke the chain of classic thinking. Hell on earth breaks loose.
