Saturday, February 24, 2018

Open thread

Events are very much in the saddle at the moment, so we'll need to make this an open thread. If you have time and aren't worried about the latest snownami, come see us at Irondale for Winter Music of the Knight today. Drumlines begin performing just past noon, with color guards in the evening. One admission gets you both shows.


3 comments:

W.B. Picklesworth said...

Here's a theological question for you. Did Jesus Son of God, the second person of the trinity, die on the cross? In other words, did God die? Why or why not?

Mr. D said...

That's not a theological question, WBP. That's months of divinity school. Jesus the man died on the cross. We are more than the body we carry our soul in, though. Jesus rose on the third day. Jesus the man and Jesus Son of God were bound together in this place, but in order to take up our sins and bring redemption, Jesus had to die to fight sin in Hell. We don't know what happened on the second day, but it was incomprehensibly consequential for all of us.

Am I close, Rev?

W.B. Picklesworth said...

I think it's always been a little controversial. The tendency is to specify that Jesus, in his humanity, died on the cross. But it's a curious kind of tearing apart of his person to suggest that only part of him died. I don't think it's the kind of thing we can answer with perfect assurance. For my part, I'm leaning towards the understanding that Jesus in his completeness, both Son of Man and Son of God, died on the cross and that therefore the Trinity experienced death even as God worked to overcome death. Certainly God in his sovereignty could have brought about our justification any way He chose. What's occupying my mind recently is why He chose the way He did. The actual death would seem to coincide with a lot of what Jesus spoke, but I haven't thought it all the way through.