If we presuppose that Jesus and God are one--as many (but not all) Christians do--then we can also infer that Jesus Christ was omnipotent, omniscient, and omni-benevolent, and it is with this that the idea of sacrifice is lost. The martyrdom was premeditated on the part of the Creator, and Jesus was resurrected afterward--showing that the act of 'death' was not an inconvenience for the immortal 'man' who was said to have known that he would be resurrected.