God never died, God was clothed in humanity in the form of Christ, and the humanity died, not God. Agree?

Question

God lived perfectly for us, because we cannot live perfectly, and God gave the perfect sacrifice for us because we cannot.

Your views?

Pisces----the blood of Christ is an allegory to the Levitical lamb offerings.

The blood of Christ means the work of Christ.

Booth, very good answer.

Answer 1

Theologically I don't think that is correct. Death according tot he Bible is separation. James says "For just as the body without the spirit is dead so also..." When the body and the spirit separate there is death. When Christ died on the cross there was a point when He took our sins upon Himself and cried out My God, why hast thou forsaken me" At that point, just a fraction of a second, Christ was separated from God the Father there was death. It was a spiritual death, and because Christ is an eternal being it was an eternal death, which He paid in order to bring us eternal life. It certainly is beyond our human understanding but most theologians would believe that as God He actually did die spiritually.

Answer 2

No.

Jesus Christ was born of Mary and the Holy Spirit.
Jesus was 100% man AND 100% God.
Jesus lived a sinless life, yet died a sin-bearing death for all, according to the will of the Father and the faithfulness of the Son. This death was 100% death, the same you and I shall experience, but perhaps through different methods.
The unique thing that makes ALL the difference, is that Jesus rose again on the 3rd day after His death! He is the firstborn of the dead, i.e. the first to overcome death, just as He said He would. This in itself validates His diety.
Because He made the way for us, to be apart from our body now is to be with Christ. Of course, I say that ONLY for those who have placed their faith in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour.

I do not water down His death, as simply His humanity died. He died, and rose again. He did, as you said, none of us could do: (1) live a sinless life, and (2) justify ourselves before God the Father, i.e. save ourselves.

Answer 3

My view is that Jesus (Yahshua), was not God (Yahwah) at all, but that because he lived a life (as a human just like the rest of us) like our Creator intended, he was the example of what God wants all of us to live like. My feeling is that he showed us that we can live perfect lives because he was not divine and he could do it.

There for, he is "the son of god" because he has done it the best so far of all the sons of god (people that care about being the best people they can possibly be). People hated him and killed him because a person that does good things makes people that don't care feel guilty, and no one likes to feel guilty.

This is just my view though. I don't know if it is right, but it is the best I can do so far.

Answer 4

CLARIFICATION: WHO CAME TO EARTH TO GIVE HIS LIFE? GOD OR HIS SON?

John 3:17: "For God sent forth his Son into the world, not for him to judge the world, but for the world to be saved through him."

ANSWER: GOD'S SON, NOT GOD HIMSELF.

Did Jesus die? Yes. Was he really dead? Yes. If he were not really dead, it would not have been necessary for God the Father to resurrect him from the dead. Gal.1:1 says: "Paul, an apostle, neither from men nor through a man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him up from the dead."

Can God die? No. Ps. 90:2 says that God is from everlasting to everlasting. Did Jesus die? Yes. Paul wrote: “We know that Christ, now that he has been raised up from the dead, dies no more; death is master over him no more.” (Romans 6:9) Thus, Jesus is the first one to be described in the Bible as receiving the gift of immortality. Indeed, at the time of Paul’s writing, Jesus was the only one who had attained indestructible life.

Answer 5

Anyone who thinks that God did not experience death on the cross is seriously mistaken.

The logic is clear.

Jesus is God.

Jesus died on the cross.

Jesus experienced death.

God experienced death.

That said, Jesus' human soul, along with his divine, godly "essence" are both immortal, and are not subject to the expiration of the flesh.

Answer 6

God in human flesh did indeed died, but God raised Jesus from the dead.
While Jesus body was laying dead during the three days in the tomb; His Spirit went back to God in Heaven and His soul went to Hades to preach and witnesses to those unbelievers during Noah's time .

But Jesus Resurrected Spirit, Soul and Body all came together when He appears to His disciples for 40 days teachings and reminding them of all that He taught and specifically pointing to the Holy Spirit who will be the teacher and guide from that time onwards and He breathe into them just like God did to Adam ; and they were all born of the spirit from above.

Now we have the Divine nature in us, the Spirit in us cannot sin. God urges us or rather command us , "Be ye perfect (or becoming perfect - actual translation) even as I AM Perfect"

Believers , are we going to obey Lord or not ?

Yes, I can hear you saying , "Amen!" and, I Amen! to that too!

Answer 7

DANIEL: Out of hand categorical rejection of any hypothesis (including god hypothesis) in the absence of a concrete and scientific PROOF to the contrary is an arrogant act of intellectual bias and prejudice. Those who reject the god hypothesis out of hand without a concrete proof are committing just such an act (I am assuming you are NOT in a possession of a scientific PROOF god does not exist).
Please read of Malcolm Muggeridge's experience after he met Mother Teresa. You atheists arrogantly assume you are smarter than believers, because of your nonbelief (there is a significant difference between nonbelief and disbelief), you are not. If you have statistics pointing to atheists being smarter than believers, I would like to see the data.

Answer 8

God is a piece in each and every one of us...this planet is life...it can also be considered "god"...its living, breathing, and giving life. Your spirit or soul has life. We should truly be worshipping ourselves not as people but spiritually. I mean by meditation like prayer- just getting in touch with one's self...getting in-tune if you will...focus less on an invidual body- more on the mind and soul...for thats the real proof of a god.

Answer 9

My view? LOL. My view is that your view is absolutely crazy.

Gods were invented by man, in a desperate attempt to explain what was once unexplainable... things like the sun, moon, and stars... day and night... thunder and lightening... sickness and death... etc... and to answer questions that were once unanswerable... vital, profound, important questions like "Daddy... what holds the sky up?" The answer for ALL of these things was some form of "God did it."

For all of these questions, the delusion "God did it" (the ILLUSION of knowledge) has been replaced by REAL knowledge... and as a result, this 'god' has been reduced from an all-powerful supernatural being to a 'God of the Gaps'... an imaginary cockroach-like creature that scurries from crack-to-crevice, looking for the remaining patches of darkness and shadow in mankind's '"knowledge-base", so as to cower and hide from the glaring light of knowledge and understanding.

The fact that people continue to cling to this pitiable, delusional 'god' idea is a pathetic disgrace, to say the least... and I am inclined to add 'tragic' to that, as well... a testament to the enduring power of gullibility, irrationality, willful ignorance, self-delusion, intellectual dishonesty, hypocrisy and drooling stupidity.

Yet today, we find stalwart defenders of these insane delusions fighting a desperate battle to stave of knowledge and understanding, trying to shield the dark cracks and crevices of ignorance from the light of reason... crying "No... no... that ain't so... God did it... God did it."

Pfffttt...

Answer 10

Of course he never died that can never happen.Gotta realize there is only 1 god,not several,not some 'man' that has us all worshipin him like he is god himself for real.Yes,we can live perfect if u follow gods laws.Who said we cant be perfect?perfect according to whose definition?The world? In that case no we'll never be, listenin to the world.But god told us how to be perfect in his sight. And i choose his way.After all he made everything ...him and him alone ,is what he says