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===[[User:Victor_Porton|Victor Porton's]] explanation===
While reading this article<ref name=":0" />, [[User:Victor_Porton|I]] came up with an idea (first [https://endofgospel.wordpress.com/2016/05/11/did-christ-died-to-demonstrate-that-altruism-wins/ published in my blog]):
Christ’s death was to demonstrate that an altruistic person will be rewarded (as in Christ’s resurrection and power over the entire heavens given) justly, even when at first it seems that this way leads to death.
* to free us from sin to live righteously - Victor Porton assumes that freeing of sin is made possible by first defeating evil in the heaven, accordingly Victor Porton's theory
* for our sins - If there were no sins, there would be no reason for Christ to die
=== Relation with other theories ===
See a list of theological theories in <ref name=":0" />.
* Ransom - the relation is unclear
* Christus Victor - Victor Porton's theory is a special case of this theory
* Moral exemplar - Victor Porton's theory is similar to this but the "exemplar" being for heavenly being rather then people
* Satisfaction - the relation is unclear
* Penal substitution - the relation is unclear
* Governmental Theory - the relation is unclear
* Communal substitution - the relation is unclear, but in opinion of [[User:Victor Porton|Victor Porton]] this looks like contradictory to his theory
=== Related Bible verses ===
"... through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." (Heb. 2:14-15).
The power of death means that the beings subjected to fear of death were punished by the devil if they expressed altruism. Altruism was punished in the kingdom of the devil. The purpose of Christ's death was by resurrection to eliminate fear of death and so bring more heavenly beings to his side of the war. After Christ's resurrection the death is no more feared and the devil cannot rule anymore.
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