Yes, this is the essence of the Gospel of Christ, that God was in Christ reconciling the sins of the world to Himself thru the incarnation, death on a cross for our sins, and the resurrection to now sit at the right hand of God the Father.
Yes, most people can accept that God was in Christ, and most Christians agree that Christians died for our sins. But your original proposition seemed to be that Christ was Yahweh. What you say above is not the same thing. Are you backing off? What does John 3:16 say is the essence of what Jesus did?
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