{"id":42270,"date":"2020-04-10T11:54:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T16:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=42270"},"modified":"2020-04-10T11:56:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T16:56:23","slug":"he-breathed-his-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/he-breathed-his-last\/","title":{"rendered":"He breathed his last"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Then Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last.&#8221; <\/p><cite>Mark 15:37<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"847\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The_Crucifixion_Christ_dead_on_the_Cross_with_the_Virgin_Mary_John_and_the_Three_Maries_mourning_f._92v_Cropped-847x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The_Crucifixion_Christ_dead_on_the_Cross_with_the_Virgin_Mary_John_and_the_Three_Maries_mourning_f._92v_Cropped-847x1024.jpg 847w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The_Crucifixion_Christ_dead_on_the_Cross_with_the_Virgin_Mary_John_and_the_Three_Maries_mourning_f._92v_Cropped-372x450.jpg 372w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The_Crucifixion_Christ_dead_on_the_Cross_with_the_Virgin_Mary_John_and_the_Three_Maries_mourning_f._92v_Cropped-768x928.jpg 768w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The_Crucifixion_Christ_dead_on_the_Cross_with_the_Virgin_Mary_John_and_the_Three_Maries_mourning_f._92v_Cropped-1271x1536.jpg 1271w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The_Crucifixion_Christ_dead_on_the_Cross_with_the_Virgin_Mary_John_and_the_Three_Maries_mourning_f._92v_Cropped-1695x2048.jpg 1695w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The_Crucifixion_Christ_dead_on_the_Cross_with_the_Virgin_Mary_John_and_the_Three_Maries_mourning_f._92v_Cropped.jpg 1891w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 847px) 100vw, 847px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today is when we remember<strong> that terrible and wonderful day when our Savior willingly died for us<\/strong>, breathing his last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This whole time, <em>God <\/em>was not breathing at all. As a divine spirit, God lacks lungs, throat, mouth, and diaphragm. He lived on to witness the heroic death of his beloved Son, his Christ &#8211; and later (spoiler alert!) to raise Jesus back to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recent and ancient catholic traditions have created a lot of confusion about just <strong>who gave up his life<\/strong> on the cross. The gospel is not that God died for you; God is essentially immortal. Rather, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=romans+5&amp;version=NRSV\" target=\"_blank\">the gospel is that <em>God&#8217;s human Son<\/em> died for you<\/a>. It was one of us who atoned for the rest of us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UCA - 10 Reasons Christians should NOT be Trinitarians (Part 1)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xVpKH27t098?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank God for that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you imagine that somehow <strong>Jesus having &#8220;two natures&#8221;<\/strong> can explain how he can die even while being the essentially immortal God? I invite you to think again &#8211; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-145-tis-mystery-immortal-dies\/\" target=\"_blank\">such speculations just don&#8217;t work out<\/a>. Think carefully through these things; don&#8217;t just blindly repeat unclear and non-biblical language, e.g. Jesus &#8220;died in his human nature&#8221; but &#8220;lived in his divine nature.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s celebrate this wonderful event without muddying the waters; the New Testament is very explicit that God is immortal, and also that his human Son died for us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was God&#8217;s human Son, not God, who died on the cross for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,61,21,15,6,75,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-atonement","category-bible","category-christology","category-complaints","category-divine-attributes","category-unitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42270"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42277,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42270\/revisions\/42277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}