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Originally Posted by Paul Miletus

I believe I have already answered your question. In my other post, I clearly specified that the "Son of God," "Son of Man," "Jesus," and the "Lamb of God" pertain to the second Person of the Triune God, Who is the Lord Jesus Christ.

In order to comfort you on this teaching, an excerpt from the Life Study of Genesis by Brother Witness Lee is posted below. Please notice the sequence of verses John 1:14 (Son of God) and John 1:29 (Lamb of God) how the Lord Jesus Christ was addressed.

I can actually understand this concept of replacement now and it is yet another example of looseness in the speaking.

It is a consideration of the interplay between the divinity and the humanity of the Lord Jesus in the context of the crucifixion.

A better way of approaching this "replacement" concept might be as follows:

In a sense, it was not the eternal Son of God Himself who died upon the Cross, for surely, as the eternal God, He was no mortal, had no blood, and neither could He die. Rather, it was in His spotless humanity, which was just as weak as our own, that Christ was offered as the sacrificial Lamb of God through His substitutionary death. In a sense, this is the reality of the type of Abraham offering the ram in Isaac's stead. As the Lamb of God, Christ in His humanity was the sacrifice who could "replace" the Son of God in His divinity as the offering that could satisfy God. As the Son of God only, He could never have accomplished the work of redemption. But as the Lamb of God, He was fully qualified and He did die for us.

Nevertheless, our marvelous Christ is both the Lamb of God and the Son of God! Having once laid aside His glory to take on a human body, that human body was then brought into glory in resurrection! In symbol, Isaac was brought back from the dead but that ram, once sacrificed, was never brought back to life. Only by being both the Son of God and the Lamb of God could Christ become the Lamb of God forever seated at the right hand of God as the Son of God. He is the unique and eternal sacrifice by being both the Lamb of God and the Son of God.

Something more balanced like that.