Let assume bible stories are true. Does this make any sense to you? What does someone’s death have to do with my way of life? Couldn’t God simply forgive our sins and move on? Why did someone have to die 
worst, it’s his beloved son. Looks like the ancient practice of human sacrifice to appease the Gods in a more modern disguise to me.
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I’m trying to understand it too, and honestly… it sounds strange at first. In Christian theology, the idea (drawn from the New Testament) is that humans are separated from God by sin. Justice requires consequences. Instead of humanity paying that cost, Jesus—believed to be God in human form—takes it on himself through crucifixion.
So “Jesus died for your sins” isn’t just “he died.” It’s: he absorbs the moral debt so reconciliation is possible. But if you step back, it raises real questions: Why require blood at all? Why is substitution necessary? Why design a system that needs sacrifice? That tension is exactly why people either see it as profound love… or as something that doesn’t quite make logical sense.