QUESTION ON CHRISTOLOGY FROM A READER

Christ the King in Eternal Glory

QUESTION:

Father I have only one question please answer me.When Jesus Christ dying on the Cruz his divine nature was also die or only the human nature dying on Cruz?

I'm Mr Donato Paras Potong Jr.I do hope that you can understand my question.

GOD BLESS TO YOU FATHER....

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ANSWER:

We all know that the Divinity of Jesus cannot die and will never die. Thus, it is wrong to claim that the Divinity of Jesus died.

Suffering and Death are possible in Jesus because of His human nature. But, the one dying is not humanity which is abstract but the person. Thus we do not say: "The humanity of Ninoy Aquino died" instead we say: "Ninoy Aquino died". Death is attributed to the person.

Since Jesus is God, we say that God died on the Cross but the statement is true by the very fact that the Lord is God, but it is not a declaration that His Divinity died. For example, the death of John F. Kennedy. The presidency was not killed but John Kennedy the person. But because he is the president then we can say that "The President died." But it doesn't mean that the Presidency died.