D-fendr, Protestant theology does teach that God demanded a sacrifice of divine nature to satisfy the "offended" divine pride! Bulls and rams couldn't come close. A human would, but not just any human—a perfect human! God kills God to satisfy His divine justice. Protestantism 101.
Imagine how important we must be if we can offend the almighty God!
I think you have to add Calvin’s predestination to get to God kills God. Emphasis on think.
I’ve just never seen it so starkly put: God killed Christ. Or God killed the martyrs.
I believe even Calvinist must avoid stating it this way, even if it is correct in their theology - which I’m not sure anyone’s said for sure in this part of the discussion anyway.
This, coming from a guy who says that man is so important that he determines his own eternal destiny, thus overruling God's declared wishes in most cases? Now fair is fair... :) WE never say that man can overrule God. Who REALLY thinks that man is more important?