Consider all the very powerful people who have had subjects and servants and who have been in a position to be able to not have to deal with these people directly but instead to have emissaries they can send. They might be like god to these people, and their emissaries like prophets. Indeed, that god quality can be there in these emissaries too. Consider one of these emissaries turning up at the door, collecting the dues for the big guy. The emissary might convey the importance of the one sending them. To ignore them is like ignoring the big guy, the god. Well these emissaries and gods are all alike not really gods in the fullest sense of what it would truly be to be a god. They eventually fail and eventually die just like anyone else. You could see the emissary in a hospital bed alongside the very people to whom they were sent. The big guy sending them might end up in a grave next to the mere mortals who had during their lives been their subjects and servants. But there is one big guy who really is truly a god. Eventually this one is the only one like that. Even his topmost emissary is more of a god than any of these other so-called gods. Yes, that emissary did die as mortals die, one on one side of him in death, one on the other side. On crosses. But the one true God who sent him, also within days raised him from the dead, making him immortal forever. These are the Son, Jesus who is the Christ, and the Father who is the one true God, who sent this Christ. Your failings to meet this God’s moral standards have necessitated Him sending this Christ to die on that cross, for you.
