To Baneeshkan: Jesus was crucified and rose from the dead

Submitted by Richard Lion heart (United States), Mar 12, 2006 at 16:02

Muslim have this heretic belief that Jesus did not die on the cross. God took human form to bring to His convenant. To say Jesus was not crucified is the worse kind of blaspahamy. After all it was satan who tried to talk Jesus out of dying.

Mark 8:31-33 "He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. 'Get behind me, Satan!' he said, 'You do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.'"

In that instance, Jesus rebuked Peter for trying to talk him out of dying.

I see you don't understand it when Jesus calls himself the Son of Man. But Jesus is fully God and fully Man. Jesus is from God, therefore Divine. Jesus is born of a woman therefore fully Man.
Jesus is God in human flesh. He is not half God and half man. He is fully divine and fully man. That is, Jesus has two distinct natures: divine and human. Jesus is the Word who was God and was with God and was made flesh, (John 1:1,14). This means that in the single person of Jesus is both a human and divine nature. The divine nature was not changed. It was not altered. He is not merely a man who "had God within Him" nor is he a man who "manifested the God principle." He is God, second person of the Trinity. "The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word," (Heb. 1:3, NIV). Jesus' two natures are not "mixed together," nor are they combined into a new God-man nature. They are separate yet act as a unit in the one person of Jesus. This is called the Hypostatic Union.

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