Yes.
That is the core of the mystery of Jesus's death: God died.
Since God is eternal, how can that be? The Church teaches that it happened, knowing full well that it's illogical. It's still true.
It is considered a heresy to say that at death, Jesus's human form died but His divine self somehow escaped death. That is a weird Cartesianism that suggests we're just "ghosts in machines," also a heresy. You can't separate Jesus into 2 "subsets" of divine and human. The 2 were too closely intermeshed.
Jesus's death wasn't just for show. He experienced death as completely as we will. Then He overcame it. This led the way for our resurrections too.
2007-10-02 04:18:29
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answer #1
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answered by Acorn 7
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Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God (Matthew 3:17), is the one and only Savior given by God (Acts 13:23). Christ is the sole mediator between God and men (I Timothy 2:5) and the only way to God (John 14:6).
But we do not subscribe to the belief that Christ is God-Man. He is man in nature according to His own testimony (John 8:40) and the teachings of His Apostles (I Timothy 2:5; Matthew 1:18).
The attributes of a human being were found in Christ. He hungered (Matthew 4:2), thirsted (John 19:28), became weary or tired (John 4:6), slept (Matthew 8:24), and died (Matthew 27:50; I Corinthians 15:3). However, Christ as distinct from all men, is the only one who did not sin (I Peter 2:21-22; Hebrews 4:15).
He has been exalted by God and given a name above all other names, that at the name of Christ every knee should bow, those in heaven, and those on earth (Philippians 2:9-11). He has been placed by God far above all principality, power, might and dominion, and every name that is named, and all things have been put under His feet (Ephesians 1:21-22). Christ will eventually subject all His power and authority to the true God (I Corinthians 15:27-28). He had in so many instances introduced Himself as the Son of God but never did He appropriate the title “God?nor “God the Son?for Himself because He is not God but man.
Instead, We believe that the one and only true God is the Father, the Creator. We hold this belief because it is the doctrine taught by our Lord Jesus Christ and His Apostles (John 17:3, 1: I Corinthians 8:6). God is a Spirit (John 4:24), and, therefore, He has no flesh and bones (Luke 24:39).
There is no trinity of persons in God. Though the Bible speaks of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, never does it refer to all of them as gods nor as three persons in one God; rather, it points to the Father alone as the true God. The Son Himself emphasized that only the Father is the true God (John 17:3, 1) and that He himself is a man telling the truth which He received from God (John 8:40). The prophets also teach that we have only one Father who created us (Malachi 2:10); Isaiah 64:4, 8). He alone is God, there is no other God and no one is like Him (Isaiah 46:9)
God is from everlasting to everlasting, with no beginning or end (Psalms 90:2), immortal (I Timothy 1:17), and does not tire or become weary (Isaiah 40:28).
He alone is the creator of heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all things therein, and the seas and all that is in them (Nehemiah 9:6
2007-10-02 21:37:11
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answer #2
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answered by Jay Aka. ngerkday 4
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Jesus came into the world so that God might show Himself to all of mankind. He became human so that many would believe in God's amazing love for us. Being human his body had to die but just like us His spirit did not die and never will.
2007-10-02 11:25:36
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answer #3
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answered by Curtis 6
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Very good God is Eternal but death is of the flesh it is not death eternal in the sense a man sees death, though it is the same because death is not eternal because Christ paid the penalty of death, and was resurrected,if it were eternal death there is no God. Jesus is God in the flesh who paid the penalty of a man through his flesh. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are one God. The Son was before the birth of Christ but came to the world to be born man to save his creation from their sin.
The fact is if death is eternal there is no reason for this discussion because we will all die and become nothing.
Praise God there is a God who overcame temptation sin and death for us.
2007-10-02 11:29:40
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answer #4
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answered by djmantx 7
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Jesus became flesh so that He could pay the ultimate price for our sins, that we would be able to come to the Father. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no one comes to the Father but through Jesus and the sacrifice He paid for our lives. God Bless
2007-10-02 11:21:54
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answer #5
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answered by CR 5
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jesus didnt die, neither did God. Jesus was released from his physical body and returned to God like a raindrop returns to the sea.
2007-10-02 11:27:26
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answered by nacsez 6
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Sweet girl, Jesus was FULLY God and FULLY man. When He was on the cross, He was fully man. And no, God cannot die, but Jesus, taking on the sins of the world, died in our place and conquered death. Now He is again fully God.
God bless you!
2007-10-02 11:27:38
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answer #7
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answered by Devoted1 7
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This might help....Jesus is the SON of God, not God himself. The Bible really does not claim that they are the same. When Jesus told his apostles that "you and I are one" just like he and his father, he meant one in faith...not literally the same being.
Does this help?
2007-10-02 11:23:50
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answer #8
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answered by Anonymous
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Christ came to earth as a man, flesh and blood therefore he died as a man. God is immortal which means he can not die.
2007-10-02 11:23:10
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answer #9
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answered by Bride of Christ 6
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God is God. IF you could understand him he would be kinda small
God gave up his life and he also rose from the dead under his own power. No way you can fully understand it but he will save you from eternal death if you accept him.
2007-10-02 11:21:58
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answer #10
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answered by jesussaves 7
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