God accomplished many things by having his Son become incarnate and die on Calvary. Through Christ God revealed the definitive truth about himself (Rom 5:8, cf. Jn 14:7-10); reconciled all things, including humans, to himself (2 Cor 5:18-19; Col 1:20-22), forgave us our sins (Ac 13:38; Eph 1:7); healed us from our sin-diseased nature (1 Pet 2:24); poured his Spirit upon us and empowered us to live in relation to himself (Rom 8:2-16 ); and gave us an example of what it looks like when we live in the kingdom (Eph 5:1-2; 1 Pet 2:21). Yet, I believe all these facets of Christ’s work can be understand as aspects of the most fundamental thing Christ came to accomplish: namely, to defeat the devil and his minions (Heb 2:14; 1 Jn 3:8). He came to overcome evil with love.
And to give credit where credit is due, that's from Greg Boyd's site and the whole article on Christus Victor can be found here: https://reknew.org/2018/11/the-christus-victor-view-of-the-atonement/
God can forgive sins he doesn't need divine child abuse to do that.. He hates it when people abuse their kids, why would He? He also tells us to forgive our brother 77 x 7 times, not to abuse our own kids instead of whoever has offended us. Why would He command that if He wasn't willing to do it for us?
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