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Passion For the TruthToday's the opening of the much talked-about movie of Mel Gibson "The Passion." It's supposed to show the last 12 hours of the life of Jesus Christ with very graphic scenes of blood and violence.
We can only imagine the details - how Christ really spent the last 12 hours of His life before His death on the cross.
The passion I have is for the truth.
Most Christians teach the Christ died on the cross because of our sins and that because of His death we are now reconciled back to God. His death on the cross is a result of God's infinite love and Jesus' love for humanity.
That's all good and true.
The problem starts when most Christians teach and share this fact then go turn around and teach and believe that God is really a Trinity!
By definition, only God is inherently immortal - can never be subject to death. In this doctrine, "God the Son" shares the same inherent attributes with the other Persons and, therefore, can never be subject to death as well.
So Who died on the cross?
It depends on which doctrine one believes in. For Trinitarians, ultimately the death on the cross is that of a human body in which "God the Son" lived in. This death, ultimately, teaches that the sacrifice that was made was merely a human sacrifice.
Both Trinitarians and Unitarians are perfectly in agreement on this point despite their difference of opinion on the divinity of Christ.
A divine Law can NEVER be atoned for by a mere human being. In this point I am in agreement with the Trinitarians. Only Someone Who was divine can pay for the death penalty required by a divine Law as much as only a human being can pay the death penalty required by a human law.
An animal can NEVER atone and be sufficient to pay for a human death penalty because an animal's life is lesser than a human being's life. Similarly, a divine being's life is infinitely more valuable than a human life.
A Third Reality
So how can a being be subject to death and not contradict the fact that a divine being must satisfy the demands of a divine Law?
There is only one possible way out of this seemingly impossible dilemma - the Third Reality.
If we accept that there is only one God, the Creator of all things, and that this one God is a single Person, and that He alone has inherently immortality the rest is easy.
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen
- 1 Timothy 6:12-16
Jesus Christ will show Who alone has inherent immortality - the only Being Who can NEVER be subject to death - God, His Father. This makes it possible for the Son of God to actually and really die the death on the cross.
How about the issue of divinity to satisfy the demands of a divine Law?
It's simple, really. The only Being Who has inherent immortality brought forth another Being after the express image of His Person. In other words, the Son of God was begotten by the Father and inherited ALL of God's divine attributes:
omniscience omnipresence omnipotence character of love self-existence etc
A closer look at Hebrews 1:1-4 will confirm this fact. Because the Son of God inherited all of His Father's divine attributes, He is equal with God in existence except in personality. This personality came into being after the Son was brought forth and received being.
For as the Father hath life [existence] in himself [self-existence]; so hath he given to the Son to have life [existence] in himself [self-existence]- John 5:26
Nothing could be plainer than what Jesus declared above! That's why what He said "I have authority to lay down My life and authority to receive it back again" could not harmonize with the above statement any better! Because He received His life from God He could also lay it down.
God's only begotten Son is the only Being in the universe Who could satisfy the demands of a divine Law for He alone is
divine can be subject to death
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
- John 1:1,14
Before the Word became of the human-kind, the Word was of the God-kind. Of course He was for He inherited all of His Father's divine attributes!
He laid this aside and fully became a human being to be subject to death on the cross. This is the gospel. This is the love of God that the Trinity and Unitarian doctrines fail to convey. In fact, both doctrines are really antagonistic to the true everlasting gospel and, simultaneously, diminishes the love of God.
If you can only realize this truth that God loves you so much He was willing and did give up His only begotten Son to be forever of the human-kind, wouldn't you love God back in return? Only love can beget love.
And the Trinity and Unitarian doctrines, which ultimately teach that only a human body died on the cross, masks this precious truth and make it of none effect.
The same Being Who God sent ( John 3:16,17 ) was also the same Being Who died on the cross. All of Him died not just a human body. It was truly the greatest gift we could ever receive.
Why not accept this gift today. Right now. Turn your back on anything that covers God's infinite love for you. And stand loyal to Him Who gave you life in the first place and now has redeemed your life from eternal death.
Worship God in spirit and in truth because He created us through His only begotten Son Who saved us by dying on the tree.
Will you accept God's love this very minute?