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hmm, I guess I didn't come to late to the party:
As I understand it, the crucifixion had to occur because the deity's law mandated blood sacrafice for sin. The savior being sinless, violated the contract and nulled it between man and deity.
That's how the teachings go, as I understand them.
Alternatively, as I understand them:
The savior was a fleshly manifestation of the deity. Maybe just an enlightened person--but I suggest that the belief was and is more important than what occurred in that particular point in time and space. While in this fleshly counterpart, he taught people the true meaning of being resurrected--the rabbinical lie that people were locked into sin from birth. As he began to resurrect people in this metaphysical sense, allowing them to directly communicate to the diety (possibly; also I think a reoccuring theme in pentacostals and Lutherans and some similar types of denominations that eschew power solidified in the bureaucratic wings), the religious leaders (also, I understand, synonymous with power we might recognize now as political) set him up and allowed the roman occupiers to execute him for political rabble-rousing.
I've even read some books that make an even further asssertion in regards to evidence that the yeshua was a mason spilling secrets to the commoners. The rest of the bio falls into place as a political manuever to have some other authorities to take him out.
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