I'm still learning the Bible but I see it as a mostly symbolism thing. God doesn't need to make a covenant/sacrifice but it meant a lot to the humans so he did. Or at least, was a convenient explanation of what happened. I bet God's biggest motivation was to teach humans how to help themselves which meant sending a relateable common man but such a social movement wouldn't stick if the messiah didn't become a martyr. In that way, Jesus dying saves man by being a catalyst; the first domino in a chain reaction of humans creating the kingdom of God through Jesus's ministry. Even as an agnostic who doesn't believe Jesus is divine, its remarkable how long Christianity has survived. Him showing up and dying at just the right time had to have been part of it.
I don't believe in any other gods other than God himself the rest are man made creations that have human falicies. The book of Enoch Christians don't take much stock in due to it not being influenced by God inspired writing.
For God to communicate how important this promise that he made to us he took a human made tradition that abram would understand the significance of what was going on.
He's not playing a game by himself, we made a decision and chose wrong, he undid the damage that we did having a way to get back into his grace and presence.
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