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Originally Posted by Evangelical
If Christ lost his divine nature on the cross then only a man died on the cross.
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But this is not what anyone has said. It is what you have been trained to claim we said so that you can attack a strawman.
The problem is not whether Christ lost his divine nature. He most definitely did not. It is whether having divine nature means that the Father is actually present just because Christ retains his divine nature. You would appear to claim such a thing, but cannot establish it as true. Instead, you have to resort to unsubstantiated claims about what presuming the other side "must" mean which you then presume forces your premise to be true.
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Originally Posted by Evangelical
Now we could say that the Father could leave Christ and Christ still retain His divinity on the cross (but it still seems like a step towards Nestorianism to me). But this is not possible, because Christ's divinity came from its divine source - the Father and the Holy Spirit. Christ's Father was divinity and His mother was humanity. Take away the Father and it takes away from Christ's divinity.
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What an interesting (though unsubstantiated) construct. Christ does not have divine nature but must get it from the Father and the Spirit. Your logic presumes that what is received at birth can be reclaimed at will. That your father could reclaim what he imparted to you through his DNA. The example in nature does not support such a position. And the scripture does not (that I can see) support it. Rather, it is an illogical falsehood masquerading as a spiritual truth.