depthdeception
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msortwell said:It is not heresy to hold the position that God the Son, the eternally begotten son of God the Father died on the cross. When a sacrifice is put to death, that death is a physical death. There are no intimations in Scripture that would necessarily relate the death of a sacrifice to spiritual death. The physical death of a man is not the cessation of his being.
It's not? That's news to me. Apparently the resurrection is quite unnecessary, then.
He will continue his existance - either in glory or in eternal torment.
No, to die is to cease to exist. The only hope of existence beyond the death of the person (for the soul cannot be separated from the body--they are a person, after all) is resurrection. Paul makes this quite clear.
Therefore, to hold that Jesus is both God and man, and died, does not necessitate the conclusion that the eternal God came to an end.
Perhaps. However, to affirm the dual natures of Christ in one person--and this was my original point--is to admit that the work of Christ upon the cross was very much a "human" effort, something which Reformationist was completely unwilling to acknowledge, to the chagrin of orthodoxy.
I for one have expressed the difficulty I have repeatedly had in understanding some of your posts. But it must just be me . . . Oh, and Reformationist.
Then perhaps its just the Calvinists...
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