[rwa265]

Yeah, I saw that post. I choose not to get involved in that conversation.

I do not believe that God died on the cross in the sense that He ceased to exist.

But I think the question can be raised whether God tasted death. That is, are the three persons of the Trinity so closely united one to another, that when Jesus experienced the condition of death, i.e., the separation of His body from His soul, did the Father and the Holy Spirit fully share in that experience? Or, because the Father and Holy Spirit are not in the flesh, is it only the incarnate Jesus that experienced this condition?

[metmom]

That is, are the three persons of the Trinity so closely united one to another, that when Jesus experienced the condition of death, i.e., the separation of His body from His soul, did the Father and the Holy Spirit fully share in that experience? Or, because the Father and Holy Spirit are not in the flesh, is it only the incarnate Jesus that experienced this condition?

I don't know that I've ever seen that addressed in Scripture.

I guess that will be filed in my *Ask God when I die and see Him* category.

[MHGinTN]

The Scriptures tell us that God took a physical body, prepared a body for The Son, so that The Son could 'taste death for all men'. The Spirit cannot 'taste death' because it is not in the same coordinate system as the body, or the soul. The separation of body and soul is something unique to physical beings in our sensory coordinate system.

That said, there is a type of 'death' which Jesus recognized and hinted at with His disciples. Recall the story of the young man who came to Jesus asking what 'else' he could do to inherit eternal life. Jesus told His disciples to let the 'dead' go bury the dead, when the young man turned away from following Jesus. The state of the human spirit is 'dead' without God-life in it. The young man could walk away a walking dead man because his spirit was in the state of 'dead'. Being born from above changes that state of 'dead' in the spirit, to alive, by The Grace of God in Christ.

[editor-surveyor]

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Nothing in the word of God says that “there are three persons of the Trinity.”

The word tells us that there are the Father and the Son, and that they are one. They have an eternal, everlasting life, which is their omnipresent Spirit.

Because their spirit is set apart from all other spirits, it is called “Holy” which means set apart.

If you wish to declare me wrong on this, please do show me where the word of God says that God is three persons. (scripture reference required)
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