I understand it in terms of the traditional reading of the crucifixion - that God sacrificed Jesus to Satan as part of a literal deal with the devil, trading him for humanity (which he acquired after Adam and Eve accepted his deal back in Eden), but that God tricked the devil by bringing Jesus back to eternal life, fulfilling the deal but leaving the devil with nothing. ( Based on
Mark 10:45 and
1 Timothy 2:5-6) That interpretation of events makes sense to me.
But it's my understanding that modern Christianity has generally done away with that traditional interpretation and come up with new ways to view the crucifixion, and has largely been replaced with Satisfaction and Substitution based interpretations. But I don't understand how the resurrection of Jesus fits within those, and I was hoping someone would be able to help explain it to me.
Wow, I, respectfully, would adamantly have to disagree with this. There are a few reasons... maybe best for me to number them.
1. Christianity did inherit (through converts) a bit of Zoroastrianism. That religion has essentially two gods, a good and an evil god. Christianity has, in a sense, turned Satan into God's evil equal making it a type of Zoroastrianism. However, Satan is a created being and thus never equal to God in any way. The author of creation has authority over the created, including Satan.
2. God calls human sacrifice an abomination... it is what the pagans did. Yeshua (Jesus) did indeed sacrifice himself, but he was not literally sacrificed as animals had been before. Yeshua was did not have his throat cut, his blood not sprinkled on the altar, he was not quartered and roasted and then eaten. Paul is who calls Yeshua a sacrifice but it is meant metaphorically. Paul actually refers to himself more times in sacrificial terms than he does Yeshua. And, Paul refers to Christians using sacrificial terms more than he does Yeshua. Yet, we recognize and accept the metaphoric nature when he uses those terms on himself and us, but take it literally when he speak of Yeshua.
3. God did not offer Satan anything. He created him perfect, he rebelled, he can't be redeemed. Yeshua gave himself as a ransom for all, but that payment was not to Satan, it was to God. Let me explain....
When Adam was created he was created perfect. He lived AS IF plugged into God as God was his source for all understanding. Adam also was given dominion over creation and so when Adam sinned, it was AS IF he unplugged from God and now had to determine for himself between good and evil. But in addition to that, there was a penalty for his sin, death. Many spiritualize this, call it a spiritual death all that... where we see in English, "you shall surely die" (Genesis 2:17) the Hebrew (mut t'mut) is literally translated, "dying you will die." This reveals a PROCESS that leads to death, NOT an immediate death. "Dying" (a process) "you will die" (that leads to a finality). So, before Adam sinned there was no death, but when he sinned, the clock began to tick and one day he would taste death. Now, all of us are born with a clock ticking. Not only us, but all of creation. Adam had dominion over it all and when he fell it fell and now all things in creation are dying. Science even proves this (Entropy, 2nd Law of Thermodynamics).
So you had a perfect creation in Adam who was tempted, gave in and sinned, and the result was death. Now, the curse of death needed to be reversed, and Yeshua would do that by doing the reverse of what Adam did. Called the 2nd Adam ( 1 Corinthians 15:45) he came into this world without sin, was tempted, but unlike the first Adam did not give in and when he ultimately died, he died not having sinned. The wages of SIN was death, and so... without having sin, the grace could not contain Yeshua and he raised. He won back the dominion Adam lost (Matthew 28:18, the word for power is also the word for dominion) and has not earned the right to perfect whomever and whatever he desires.
He sacrificed himself as we can see... but he was not a literal sacrifice. The sacrifices all POINTED to the work I just described, and that is why Paul used the terminology of the sacrificial system in his letters. Romans 5:12-19 speaks on what I just shared. Not sure I helped but be blessed anyway.