I have a question that I've been wondering about ever since I've been responding to Muslims and Jews regarding the crucifixion. Some say Jesus' human flesh only died on the cross and not His devine nature. When we respond saying Jesus' human nature died on the cross, does this include a human soul since a human nature isn't just physical flesh, and would that mean Jesus had two Spirit's, His divine and human? I'm not trying to believe anything heretical. I honestly don't know. I've heard a popular Christian apologist say only his flesh died and nothing further. This seems off.
*Amended
New Question regarding the Hypostatic Union.
Jesus is two natures one person.
Jesus is 100 % human and a 100% devine.
How many persons is Jesus?
Is the Union denying a human soul is a person?
I prefer traditional Christians to answer this.
Answers coming from non Trinitarians, Mormons and physicalists will be disregarded.
Hello Ann,
You know that our Lord Jesus Christ appeared to His disciples including apostle Peter after the third day that He was crucified.
This is what we have heard apostle Peter have spoken:
"Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that He (God) would set one of his descendants on his throne,
he FORESAW and SPOKE ABOUT the resurrection of the Christ, that he (Christ) WAS NOT ABANDONED TO Hades, NOR DID HIS FLESH (Christ’s flesh) SEE CORRUPTION.
This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.
Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit,- Acts 2:29-33
Here, we have heard that it is evidence that our Lord Jesus Christ was not abandoned or alone but with the Father and the Holy Spirit when our Lord Jesus went to Hades.
As we have heard:
Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, "FATHER, INTO YOUR HANDS I commit my spirit!" And having said this he breathed his last. -Luke 23:46
As we also have heard :
If
the Spirit of Him (God) who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you,
He (God the Father) who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies
through His Spirit (the Spirit of God) who dwells in you. -Romans 8:11
From what apostle Paul, we come to know that the God the Father through His Holy Spirit who raised Jesus Christ our Lord.
Indeed, the flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ or human nature as you understand that was crucified and killed by lawless men of Israel but God has raised Christ and freed Him from the suffering of death ; it was impossible that death could keep its hold on Him.
Also, we have received the testimony from apostle Peter who HAVE SEEN the Lord after His crucifixion that the Lord’s flesh see no corruption!
In regard to the Lord’s soul, this is what we have heard the Lord Himself have spoken:
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. -Matthew 10:28
So it is impossible that these lawless men of Israel could kill the soul of our Lord !
Likewise, the Lord Jesus Christ have spoken of his life or soul:
For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. -John 10:17
No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father." -John 10:18
In regard to the Lord’s divine nature, this is what we have heard :
God is SPIRIT, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." -John 4:24
Likewise, this is what we have heard :
For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. -1 Corinthians 15:21
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. -1 Corinthians 15:22
Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. -1 Corinthians 15:45
Here, we come to know our Lord Jesus Christ’s divine nature is life-giving Spirit.
So as we have heard as in Adam all die, that is why God gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them.
And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
As the Lord has called to the Jews and Muslim
and those in the world, saying :
and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel." -Mark 1:15
Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. -John 3:5