In Christian Gnosticism, Jesus Christ does not come to die for human sins, but to act as a cosmic whistle-blower or divine messenger whose mission is to awaken the "divine sparks" (pneuma) trapped inside physical matter.

Because humanity suffers from a spiritual amnesia induced by physical matter, the supreme God sends Christ down through the planetary spheres to infiltrate the Demiurge's matrix.
[The Pleroma: True Source of Light]
│
▼ (Christ Descends / Infiltrates)
┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ THE MATERIAL PRISON (The Demiurge) │
│ │
│ [Human Body] ──> [Amnesia / Sleep] │
│ │ │
│ └─── [Trapped Divine Spark] │
│ ▲ │
│ │ (Awakened by) │
│ [Gnostic Jesus] │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘