Don't read an ything into this, don't wist my words. each word means exactly what it says, and only what it says.
The Trinity is made up of three distinct separate persons. These persons are God the Father, God the Son (Jesus, the second person of the Trinity), and God the Holy Spirit.
These three persons while completely separate share one nature. This is a divine nature. Each of them is fully capable of acting separately from the others, yet these actions are always in full accord with each other. This full accord was how God the Father was able to send His Son for our redemption, and Jesus was able to send the Holy Spirit to guide the Church in all truth.
Now Jesus as a separate person was able to fully posses two natures. A divine nature, and a separate fully human nature. He was fully God and fully man. This fully human nature shared the same human emotions as every other human, but was cognizant of His fate and able to overcome His fears through faith in the Father. (See the garden of Gethsemane.)
This second person of the Trinity did die on the cross and it was indeed God that did die. As several of you are so fond of saying it was only through the shedding of blood that we could be redeemed. Millions of humans had died before Him yet none of them could redeem us. It had to be the death of God the Son, second person of the Trinity.
Abraham being willing to sacrifice Isaac was the precedent that set the stage for this. God the Father had to be not only willing to let His Son die but actually had to let His Son die for the redemption to occur.
Note: I will not be responding to any of the typical stupid or smart aleck comments I expect to arise from this post. If you have something intelligent to say I will respond. Anything that contains the usual "Prove it from scripture" comments will be ignored.
Not sure, but that might get you in trouble with your church...something bout Nestorianism....
If you could stop right there and NOT claim that Jesus' mother Mary bore God, you'd be okay.
Hoss
In the same manner?