Is it wrong to assert that God died on the Cross? The purpose of the incarnation is carefully explained in these words: “We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone” (Heb 2:9). God “has immortality” (athanasia, “no death,” 1 Tim 6:16) and therefore is impervious to death (the verse is speaking about the Son). The Son must take on humanity to die. “Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death” (Heb 2:14). God cannot die; thus the necessity of Christ’s incarnation (in flesh). While it is true that the One on the cross was “God…manifest in flesh” (1 Tim 3:16), and so was capable of death, He was not subject to it, as we are (see Jn 10:17-18). It is a great mystery: He became what He was not, while not ceasing to be what He ever was.
Today’s Reading: Psalms 80-82 Memorize: Luke 15:10