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Now I'm reminded of a quote from a similar work:
To conquer death, you only have to die.
Something similar happened to canon!Harry in book 7, after he had become the owner of all three Deathly Hallows...
Well, the Christus Victor theology of the resurrection of Christ is basically that Christ broke our slavery to death by going through the process Himself, which caused a divide by zero error and broke death permanently.
Hearing about this improves my opinion of Christianity. I was previously only familiar with penal substitution theory. God sacrificing himself to a third party to pay a debt to that third party makes some kind of sense, while sacrificing himself to himself to pay a debt to himself is obviously crazy.
I'm surprised that ransom theories are unpopular now. Christianity could avoid a lot of mockery by returning to them.
Avoiding mockery is probably not a terminal value of most of the denominations you're referring to. Regardless, if you accept the doctrine of the Trinity, God gets to be both a third party and a first party to the transaction, problem solved! And most Christians probably see it more as God making a sacrifice to appease the cosmic legal system that he instituted rather than himself directly, if that makes any sense.
Tada!
Sounds legit.