Why is Jesus called the "Lamb of God?
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Matthias
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“The famous hymn of the church ‘And Can It Be’ contains a line that asks a very poignant question: ‘How can it be that thou, my God, shouldst die for me?’ Is it accurate to say that God died on the cross? …
If God dies then everything dies with him. Obviously, then, God could not have perished on the cross.
Some say, ‘It was the second person of the Trinity Who died.’ That would be a mutation within the very being of God, because when we look at the Trinity we say that the three are one in essence, and that though there are personal distinctions among the persons of the Godhead, those distinctions are not essential in the same sense that they are differences in being. Death is something that would involve a change in one’s being.
We should shrink in horror from the idea that God actually died on the cross. The atonement was made by the human nature of Christ. … It’s the God-man Who dies, but death is something that is experienced only by the human nature, because the divine nature isn’t capable of experiencing death.”
(R.C. Sproul, “Did God Die on the Cross?”)
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If God dies then everything dies with him. Obviously, then, God could not have perished on the cross.
Some say, ‘It was the second person of the Trinity Who died.’ That would be a mutation within the very being of God, because when we look at the Trinity we say that the three are one in essence, and that though there are personal distinctions among the persons of the Godhead, those distinctions are not essential in the same sense that they are differences in being. Death is something that would involve a change in one’s being.
We should shrink in horror from the idea that God actually died on the cross. The atonement was made by the human nature of Christ. … It’s the God-man Who dies, but death is something that is experienced only by the human nature, because the divine nature isn’t capable of experiencing death.”
(R.C. Sproul, “Did God Die on the Cross?”)
Did God Die on the Cross?
The famous hymn of the church “And Can it Be?” contains a line that asks a very poignant question: “How can it be that thou, my God, shouldst die for me?” Is it
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Matthias
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“Did God die on the cross? The short answer is yes. God the Son died in the person of Jesus Christ. Or, as Stephen Wellum says, ‘God the Son incarnate died.’ Or, as Rhyne Putman prefers, ‘God the Son, the second person of the Trinity, experienced death in his human nature.‘ Or, God the Son died according to his human nature. These are different ways of making the same basic point.”
(Brandon D. Smith, “Did God Die on the Cross?: The Trinity and the Crucifixion”)
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(Brandon D. Smith, “Did God Die on the Cross?: The Trinity and the Crucifixion”)
Did God Die on the Cross?: The Trinity and the Crucifixion — Center For Baptist Renewal
BRANDON D. SMITH: Did God die on the cross? The short answer is yes.
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