God didn't become sin and die.
False.
Where does Scripture (not your worthless rationalizations) say, "God didn't become sin and die". Chapter and verse, please...
Jesus became sin and died.
True.
Therefore Jesus isn't God.
Scripture contradicts your false theology:
John 1:1 ...
and the Word was God. [...]
14 And the Word became flesh [...]
John 8:58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you,
before Abraham was, I am.”
John 20:28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and
my God!”
Acts 20:28 [...] to care for the church
of God, which he obtained
with his own blood.
Rom. 9:5 [...] is
the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
Phil. 2:5 [...]
Christ Jesus, 6 who, though
he was in the form of God, [...]
Col. 2:9 For in him
the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,
Titus 2:13 [...] the appearing of the glory of
our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
Heb. 1:8 But
of the Son he says, “
Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, [...]
2Pet. 1:1 [...] by the righteousness of
our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
So who died for your sins on a cross. God or a perfect man who became sin?
Christ died for my sins on a cross.
Christ is God.
But wait, let me share with you what the earliest Christians believed and taught. And it looks like we went around on this last May, since I shared these passages (as well as the above Scriptures) with you back then.
The Earliest church:
(Clement, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, Justin Martyr, Melito of Sardis, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Hippolytus, etc.)
“
He that hung up the earth in space was Himself hanged up; He that fixed the heavens was fixed with nails; He that bore up the earth was borne up on a tree; the Lord of all was subjected to ignominy in a naked body—God put to death! the King of Israel slain with Israel’s right hand! Alas for the new wickedness of the new murder! The Lord was exposed with naked body: He was not deemed worthy even of covering; and, in order that He might not be seen, the luminaries turned away, and the day became darkened because they slew God, who hung naked on the tree.” (
Melito of Sardis, Part V)
“
The scepter of the majesty of God, even our Lord Jesus Christ, came not in the pomp of arrogance or of pride”
(Clement of Rome, 1Clem 16:2)
“Brethren,
we ought so to think of Jesus Christ, as of God, as of the Judge of quick and dead.” (
Clement of Rome, 2Clem. 1:1)
“... predestined, before time was, to be—to her abiding and unchanging glory—forever united and chosen, through real suffering, by the will of the Father and
Jesus Christ our God.” (
Ignatius, Eph. 1:0)
“Why do we not all become wise, having received knowledge of
God, that is, Jesus Christ!“ (
Ignatius, Eph. 17:2)
“The fact is,
our God Jesus Christ was conceived by Mary according to
God’s dispensation of the seed of David, it is true,..." (
Ignatius, Eph. 18:2)
“
God was making His appearance in human form to mold the newness of eternal life:” (
Ignatius, Eph. 19:3)
Tral. 7:1 And you will do so if you are not puffed up and cling inseparably
to God Jesus Christ, to the bishop, and to the precepts of the Apostles. (
Ignatius, Tral. 7:1)
“Ignatius, also called Theophorus, to the Church that has found mercy in the transcendent Majesty of the Most High Father and of
Jesus Christ, His only Son; the church by the will of Him who willed all things that exist, beloved and illuminated through the faith and love of
Jesus Christ our God; […] Heartiest good wishes for unimpaired joy in
Jesus Christ our God, to those who are united in flesh and spirit by every commandment of His;” (
Ignatius, Rom. 1:0)
“Nothing that is seen is good.
Our God Jesus Christ certainly is the more clearly seen now that He is in the Father." (
Ignatius, Rom. 3:3)
“
I extol Jesus Christ, the God who has granted you such wisdom. For I have observed that you are thoroughly trained in unshaken faith, being nailed, as it were, to the Cross of the Lord
Jesus Christ both in body and in soul,…" (
Ignatius, Smyr. 1:1)
"it was good of you to give them a warm reception
as to servants of Christ God“ (
Ignatius, Smyr. 10:1)
“I say good-bye to you all forever
in Jesus Christ our God, through whom I wish you to be united with
God and under His watchful eye. "(Ignatius, Poly. 8:3)
“and may He grant unto you a lot and portion among His saints, and to us with you, and to all that are under heaven, who shall believe on
our Lord and God Jesus Christ and on His Father
that raised him from the dead. (
Polycarp, Phil. 12:2
)
“but now you will permit me first to recount the prophecies, which I wish to do in order to prove
that Christ is called both God and Lord of hosts, and Jacob, in parable by the Holy Spirit; ” (
Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, 36)
“For if you had understood what has been written by the prophets, you would not have denied that
He was God, Son of the only, unbegotten, unutterable God.” (
Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, 126)
“And that
Christ being Lord, and God the Son of God, and appearing formerly in power as Man, and Angel, and in the glory of fire as at the bush, so also was manifested at the judgment executed on Sodom,” (
Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, 128)
“For they who affirm that the Son is the Father, are proved neither to have become acquainted with the Father, nor to know that the Father of the universe has
a Son; who also, being the first-begotten Word of God, is even God." (
Justin Martyr, First Apology, 63)
“ the ascension into heaven in the flesh of the beloved Christ Jesus, our Lord, and His [future] manifestation from heaven in the glory of the Father ‘to gather all things in one,’ and to raise up anew all flesh of the whole human race, in order that
to Christ Jesus, our Lord, and God, and Saviour, and King, according to the will of the invisible Father,” (
Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 1.10.1)
“
This Word, then, the Christ, the cause of both our being at first (for He was in God) and of our well-being, this very Word has now appeared as man,
He alone being both, both God and man—[...] for the Word, who “was with God,” and by whom all things were created,
has appeared as our Teacher. The Word, who in the beginning bestowed on us life as Creator when He formed us, taught us to live well when He appeared as our Teacher; that as God He might afterwards conduct us to the life which never ends.” (
Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Heathen, 1)
“For God alone is without sin; and the only man without sin is Christ,
since Christ is also God.” (
Tertullian, Treatise on the Soul, Part 1, 41)
“The Logos alone of this
God is from
God himself;
wherefore also the Logos is God, being
thesubstance of God.” (
Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies, 10.29)
