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I think the point of having Jesus as a scapegoat was to relate to injustice.  Many people good people in the world are scapegoated, so God wanted to relate to those people.  Also, in the book of Job, Job was asked to love God despite the bad things happening to him, in order to prove he was a real friend.  Therefore, the scapegoated and tortured Jesus was being the "ultimate" Job, surpassing Job.