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Originally Posted by Boxjobox
Trapped, concerning Jesus the righteous man who died for our sins, read Romans. Paul gives us this view. God accepts it, I accept it, I hope you do too! Do you really want your gospel to be that God died? This would be different from what is preached in Acts.
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BJB, to say that "God died" is an oversimplification of what happened. The
physical body that the Son of God, Jesus (who is God-kind) inhabited, died. But Jesus (who is God-kind) in His soul didn't die. He took a stroll through Hades while physical life left His physical body. His physical body is just a shell. That's what died. Not Jesus in His very existence.
Just like us. We don't fear the one who can kill the body, but can kill the soul. The soul of Jesus Himself, who is God-kind, didn't die (i.e. be extinguished from existence) when His physical body died, just like our soul won't die when our physical body dies either.
God passed through death. His physical body died. He in His existence didn't die.
So far you've ignored my questions regarding how Jesus's death could atone for billions of people if he was just a man, as well as what's going on in John 1:18. And now I'll add another. What's going on in Acts 20:28 which tells us that God purchased the church with His own blood?