The 'redemption of mankind' is one description of the metaphor of the qof ק. But the strokes of the letter indicate that the Son of God כ died and rose again. He conquered death. Through the conquering of death he redeemed man.

The conquering of death is God-centered; it speaks of what Christ did. Redeeming mankind is man-centered. It is true, but we like to put ourselves at the center.

By way of interpretation we always go back to the foundation. The foundation is that the invisible God wishes to be known. Implied in this teaching is the doctrine of death. But where was it taught previously? How did death come into the picture according to God's systematic theology?

The death of man is contained as a secondary metaphor in the aleph א. It is the separation of the heavens and the earth. It is a war between God and man. ^[1]

Man has already been judged. ^[2]

The death of man due to sin was known and anticipated by God even before he created the Universe. To create the Universe he used words to speak it into existence. To form those words he used letters. Embedded in the letters are the teachings that man would sin, and die, and that the Son of God would conquer death. ^[3]

The doctrine was not magically given to Peter, but was discerned from the doctrine contained in the Hebrew alphabet. We should find extra-biblical evidences of the alphabet metaphor. One such evidence is the non-biblical writing The Gospel of Thomas. In saying 16, Thomas use the aleph to represent war. ^[4]

Christ conquered death and redeemed mankind from that death. This act reveals the Holiness of God in condemning sin, and also reveals the he is Love by taking our place.

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1. ↑ Ro 8:7 Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
2. ↑ Joh 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Joh 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
3. ↑ 1Pe 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain conversation [received] by tradition from your fathers; 1Pe 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: 1Pe 1:20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
4. ↑ GOT (16) Jesus said, "Men think, perhaps, that it is peace which I have come to cast upon the world. They do not know that it is dissension which I have come to cast upon the earth: fire, sword, and war. For there will be five in a house: three will be against two, and two against three, the father against the son, and the son against the father. And they will stand solitary." The word שוא which is spelled out by the letters representing fire, sword, and war, means desolation.