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If you notice, nowhere in Scripture does it actually say God died.
Is it correct to say God died on the cross?
I take the negative.
The Body of Christ died, NOT God.
It's a person that dies not a body. If we say John dies we mean the person "John" died not that his body died.
When we say Jesus died we mean the person of Jesus, second person of the Trinity, experienced death.
Is it correct to say God died on the cross?
I take the negative.
No sorry, our person-hood, soul/mind/spirit, NEVER dies. When the Bible talks about death, it is in reference to a physical death, NOT a meta-physical one.
Just like God said to Adam in Genesis 2:17...Adam didn't die WHEN he ate from the tree, he died 900 years later as a result of eating from the tree. In the Bible, God looks at us as effectually dead or literally dead. The spirit/soul never dies.
Historically in Christianity death is the separation of body and soul. The body becomes corrupt but the soul lives on.
On the cross therefore Jesus died because his human body and human soul separated. The person, Jesus, was God (second person of the Trinity) and therefore it is correct to say that God died on the cross.
However his divine person remained united to his human body as well as his human soul. So perhaps we can say that God (the Son) in his divinity did not die, but God (the Son) in his humanity did experience death. However as we cannot separate Jesus’ divinity and his humanity it is correct to say that God died on the cross.
1 Peter 3:18-20
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. [sup]19 [/sup]After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits — [sup]20 [/sup]to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built.
I thinkg we need clarification. The word "theos" translated God means deity or divinity. It's mostly used of the Father but is sometimes used of Jesus. I think you should specify whether you mean Jesus or the Father, since God is a term used of both it can be misleading. Jesus did die, the Father did not.
Very good point. My question is referring to deity.
I believe that to say Jesus died, is correct, since Jesus was God manifest in flesh. He was both man and God. But to say God died, is incorrect, as God is a spirit and therefore cannot be seen. It was only the image of God that died. God himself cannot die.
2 Co. 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Jesus is God.
If Jesus died then it is correct to say that God died.
You could say that God died according to his humanity as an explanation or clarification but we must not deny that saying God died is a true statement.
To say that Jesus is "only the image of God" is to suggest that Jesus is not truly God.
I guess in that sense of the word 'God', it is correct.
I do wish to point out, I never stated Jesus is ONLY the image of God. I said Christ. According to Scripture, Christ is the image of God.
And how is that different to what I said?
Because His divinity went to preach to the lost, NOT His humanity.
God in the form of Jesus Christ AKA flesh AKA human flesh was fully man and fully God. Where Jesus went on earth his humanity went with him because he was God in human form. Perhaps I'm being pedantic.