Who died on the cross?

This is a question to those who believe someone died on the cross on Calvary hill at Golgotha. Who was the person who died on the cross?

What catches my attention is what the Bible says about it.

@sonship said
This is a question to those who believe someone died on the cross on Calvary hill at Golgotha. Who was the person who died on the cross?

What catches my attention is what the Bible says about it.

Who died on that cross on Calvary?

God in a man. Watchman Nee wrote in "The Gospel of God"

"We have sin, and sin can only be taken care of by God Himself. For this reason, God came to the world to be a man."

I have been given the ability to believe this - that "God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself" (2 Cor. 5:19)

I believe the New Testament shows God went to the uttermost in His love to save us by justifying us from the condemnation we deserved. He could go no further in that He who knew no sin became sin on our behalf that we might be justified eternally.

Who do you think died on the cross?

@sonship

Miss Moneypenny?

@sonship said
This is a question to those who believe someone died on the cross on Calvary hill at Golgotha. Who was the person who died on the cross?

What catches my attention is what the Bible says about it.

@rajk999 said
Another thread designed to show that Christians are 'once saved always savd', and do not have to do anything but sit around and let Christ take the blame for all their sins.

Whatever happened to all those other failed threads, you left hanging?

@kevin-eleven said
@sonship

Miss Moneypenny?

@Kevin-Eleven

Why are you making light of the question ?

@sonship said
Is a "failed thread" a thread that you do not agree with?

The question is about the identity of the one who died on the cross.

Acts 20:28 speaks of the One who died on the cross.
It is mysterious. It is God yet God with human blood.

How could this be?

"Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among whom the Holy Spirit has placed you as overseers to shepherd the church of God, which He obtained with His own blood."

To be fair the capable Bible translator John Nelson Darby said it should be "which He purchased with the blood of His own".

I would not dare to think to argue with a Greek translator such as Darby. But other scholars say it should be the church of God which He obtained with His own blood.

The Word who was God did become flesh (John 1:1,14)

But then how can God die?
How can God have flesh and blood and how can God die?

This is the revelation of the incarnation of God.
He was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.

As far as it is possible for you and I to understand, God laid down everything in His love that we would be reconciled to Him.

And some here make frivolous jokes about it.
And some don't want to believe there was even any need for such an act.

Maybe eternal punishment is the other side of not believing God went to such a length to save us from our sins. He could go no further than in Christ lay down His own life for us. He who knew no sin was made sin on our behalf.

And jokesters and comedians here make jolly whimsical jest of what God has done for their souls.

"Him who not know sin He made sin on our behalf that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." (2 Cor. 5:21)

One has to ask himself "Why are they acting up?"

Who died there on Calvary's cross. Maybe it is not important?

The Bible says that it is important and that it is both universal and personal to each one of us.

"Namely, God in Christ was reconciling the world to Himself, not accounting their offenses to them, and has put in us the word of reconciliation.

On behalf of Christ then we are ambassadors, as God entreats you through us;
we beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Him who did not know sin He made sin on our behalf that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."

@sonship

Believe what you want to believe. Allow others to do the same.

@sonship said
@Kevin-Eleven

Why are you making light of the question ?

@sonship said
Acts 20:28 speaks of the One who died on the cross.
It is mysterious. It is God yet God with human blood.