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Originally Posted by zeek
Who said anything about the Father going to the cross except you?
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zeek has hit the nail on the head. This discussion (on both sides of the forum) has resorted to using "God" in a generic sense, and by it has turned the difficult issue of the trinity into a kind of "God stew" in which God is simply God and that is all there is to it.
In that view, either only the human (the man) Jesus died, or God (the whole thing — Father, Son, and Spirit) died. But within the Trinitarian view, God is thee and one in a way that neither separates totally, nor is simply a singular (my poor attempt at restating Athanasius). It still doesn't "define" it clearly, rather establishes something that we cannot fully understand. Something that remains a mystery. But it does provide a way for Jesus Christ to die without stating that God (the One) died. Or that the Father or Spirit died.