The meaning of the story just overflows our categories. By his death we live.

Concerning your ORT (not ROT—lol!), when Jesus refuses to turn stones into bread to satisfy his hunger, he is saying something like, "no, we don't change the laws of the universe on a whim..."

FWIW I use a variation of Girard's mimetic violence theory as my explanation of original sin, by the way.

https://medium.com/@pierrewhalon/for-us-and-our-salvation-why-do-we-need-saving-5b08e9e2bd8e