If Jesus was God how could he have suffered, let alone die?
When you put this question to trinitarian apologists they will usually resort to what I call As-a-man Christology.In other words, the divine Son, 2nd Person of the Trinity, experienced death and other human frailities (like fear, hunger, temptation) through his flesh, his human nature only.
But the fact is that the NT teaches that the Son of God Himself was the one who suffered and died for you and me.
John says “God gave His only-begotten Son....As a sacrifice to take away our sins.” John 3.16; 1 John 4.10
And Paul says in Rom 5:10a “Once we were God’s enemies. But we have been brought back to God because his Son has died for us.”
NOTICE scripture clearly says the work was done by the Son himself who suffered and eventually died as a sacrifice for our sins.
There is nothing in scripture to even hint that this happened to some impersonal human nature belonging to some 2nd member of a Trinity God.
To buy into this type of verbal and theological gymnastics has very serious consequences for your salvation.
Paul, for example, says that among the first important things preached was that the Son died for our sins, according to the Scriptures.
That he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.
The As-a-man Christology is a clear denial of all these fundamental, biblical truths!
So I urge you to rethink what you may have been taught or heard about the one you confess as your lord and savior.
Remember, God has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son.
21 At one time you were far away from God and were his enemies because of the evil things you did and thought.
22 But now, by means of the death of his Son, God has made you his friends, in order to bring you, holy, pure, and faultless, into his presence.
23 You must, of course, continue faithful on a firm and sure foundation, and must not allow yourselves to be shaken from the hope you gained when you heard the gospel.
It is of this gospel that I, Paul, became a servant—this gospel which has been preached to everybody in the world.
