I believe God exists, So the story of the Christ is un-necessary

Well, this is by far the most civil beginning to a debate I've had on this website lol.I thank my opponent for letting me lead. As he stated, I also agree that grammar be weighed ONLY IF it interferes with the argument (i.e. only if grammar is so bad it interferes with meaning), otherwise, grammar is completely neutral - format should not be considered for awarding points.First, I will aim straight for the Christian argument.Anyone familiar with Christianity is familiar with the concept of the Trinity to some degree. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are all God, yet for some reason we seek to create separate distinctions for them.In math terms, this makes complete sense, as if you divide infinity by three, you still get infinity. I illustrate this simple principle to demonstrate that such distinctions are less an actual separation of divinity than they are for people to be able to comprehend divinity in our limited fashion. Christ is God, yes, but only in the sense that it helps us to understand one specific aspect of God, His love via sacrifice (John 3:16). Such love is defined in the New Testament by the story of Christ, but is almost a foreign concept in the Old Testament - Abraham and Job are examples where sacrifice is demanded from God's people, but God does not ever sacrifice FOR his people.To have God demonstrate such a concept as self-sacrifice to His creation thus sets an example for His creation to emulate it. Without a Christ figure, it is impossible to find in the Bible where God reciprocates his love to the extent demanded from his people. Without such reciprocation, God's love is not manifest. To the extent that God IS love (I John 4:7-8), to not have the Christ in Christianity would be synonymous to Christianity not having God.Now I will demonstrate Christ-like figures in other religions.First of all, the Bible without Christ is almost synonymous with Judaism. Although Judaism does not have a figure where man=God, it does have figures that were so filled with the Spirit that they were able to commune with God and provide a link from God to man - these people are the prophets. [1] Like Christ, these prophets led and taught through their connection to divinity, and set the example for others to follow. Like Christ, Abraham was willing to sacrifice what was most dear to him (Isaac) to show his love for God. Job, while not a prophet, was certainly a man the "Spirit of God hath made" (Job 33:4), who set an example that all Jews and Christians do well to follow. Without these prophets, the link between God and man simply would not exist.In Buddhism, it is also a man, Gautama, who achieves enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, thus providing a path to Nirvana for all to follow. To the extent where Nirvana represents an otherworldly existence free of suffering, the Buddha thus connects man to the divine. Without the Buddha, this connection would not exist.The Egyptian Osiris myth is another interesting example. Osiris was descended from divinity and brought the Egyptians agriculture, but is much more known for being the god of the dead. To the extent that overcoming death is itself a divine power, and that Osiris was the one to "admit all people to the Duat, the gentle, fertile land in which the righteous dead lived, that had lived a good and correct life upon earth," [2] Osiris also embodied a Christ-like figure to no small degree. That he became popular due to the attraction of the afterlife is a direct precursor to the popularity enjoyed by Christianity hundreds of years later.A more contemporary example manifests in the movie Contact. [3] Although the Jodie Foster character is an adamant atheist, she falls in love with a priest, and indeed has an encounter with otherworldly beings that in many ways resembles a contact with divinity, what she deems as indescribably beautiful. (video) This divinity manifests itself to her by taking the form of a man, specifically her father, in order to communicate in a fashion that her limited consciousness could understand. Throughout all these examples, one clear pattern emerges - the need for a human, empowered by the divine, to communicate the wishes of the divine to man. Without this divinely inspired human, mankind would be left in the dark, without vision or guidance, and forever left to its imperfections. To the extent that religions seek to inspire men to perfection (i.e. entrance to heaven, Nirvana, technological transcendence, etc), to not have this core link, this divine man, would be akin to not having the religion at all. Without the religion to proclaim the existence of God, God would not exist to man.CONCLUSIONIn Christianity, God manifests through Christ to demonstrate love. As God IS love, to not have the Christ would be akin to not having God. Therefore, to have God, one MUST have the Christ.In other religions, in order for man to perceive God's existence, God must somehow manifest in the form of a man in order to display His divinity. Without this display, mankind would be ignorant of God's existence. Therefore, such a man is absolutely necessary in order to prove God's existence.Given this logic, it is impossible to believe in God without a Christ-like figure, be it Christ or a similar figure in another religion or belief system. The Christ figure is absolutely necessary to establish God's existence.[1] http://www.jewfaq.org...[2] http://www.egyptianmyths.net...[3] http://www.imdb.com...http://www.youtube.com...