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I just had a related conversation with a friend of mine who said that he had been taught that only Christ\u2019s human nature died on the Cross.\u00a0 His divine nature did not.<\/p>\n

A while back ago, we discussed the passage in the Lutheran Confessions that insists, against a number of opponents, that it is correct to say that \u201cGod died\u201d on the cross.\u00a0 Again, we have \u201cthe communication of attributes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Otherwise, it seems like the Incarnation is being split, if not undone.\u00a0 The Son of God is both true God and true Man even in Heaven.\u00a0 And the Son of God is both true God and true Man who is \u201cwith us always.\u201d\u00a0 God is still and always incarnate in Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

\nIt\u2019s hard to imagine how Christ\u2019s death could have such an effect\u2013bearing our sins and griefs and atoning for them\u2013if it were just His human nature, or just His body that suffered.\u00a0\u00a0 Surely only the death of God\u2013not the Father, but the Son\u2013could accomplish things of such magnitude.\n

I\u2019m starting to see how, as David Scaer has put it, \u201call theology is Christology.\u201d<\/p>\n

UPDATE:\u00a0 Here is a link to the earlier post, along with a substantial quotation from the Formula of Concord, Article VIII: That God Died<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"