Is it egotistical to think that a God would die for you?

They stoned stephen because their conscience's were cut to the quick.Acts 7 KJV
52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.Edited by foreveryoung, : No reason given.Edited by foreveryoung, : No reason given.

It is the word of God. Men may have wrote it but God inspired it and if the story appears to be an accounting of events, then I don't believe God would inspire such a writing if it were false and propaganda.