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Originally Posted by Evangelical
I understood my quote "no surrogate" to mean "no surrogate for God Himself". I agree that Jesus was a surrogate for humanity but this was not the context I believe of the quote.
I don't disagree with Lee on the point you raised, so I am not sure what it this "own voice" you speak of. I understand Lee's quote to mean that divinity did not die. God the divine did not die, but "God in the flesh" died.
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What does this mean? Earlier you said it was "logical" that God died. Now you are parsing that? We now have "God the divine" and "God in the Flesh" as two separate entities? Keep digging
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Originally Posted by Evangelical
God in the flesh is who Christ was because of the Incarnation. We cannot separate His atoms and say that only the human atoms in Christ died, the God atoms did not. This is a mystery and hard to explain. It only makes sense to say that God died, or God in the flesh died, to be more precise. Christ also had the Holy Spirit, yet the divinity, the Spirit did not die, only left Him, and returned 3 days later for the purpose of resurrection.
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This is absurd. So the God atoms and human atoms were all one after the incarnation? How was it that Jesus asked "My God, My God why have you forsaken me?" Didn't He know you can't separate the God atoms from the human atoms? The Spirit of God left Him but the God atoms didn't?
So I am assuming that this doctrine is also something that we don't need verses for since there are "too many interpretations"? Quite amazing that those who believe in the Bible by necessity believe in a flat earth (according to you) and also "God atoms"!
You do realize of course that during a lunar eclipse they could see that the shadow of the Earth was round?
This is what happens when you leave the word of God to try and explain mysteries. The word of God became flesh and tabernacled among us. He traveled around in a human form like someone who was camping in a tent. This tent was "ripped" at the crucifixion opening the way to the Holy of Holies where God was. God is not typified by the tent, He is typified by the ark of covenant.