Pr. Cascione: just a note to let you know that I believe that God died on
Good. Friday. You aren't alone. Peace, (LCMS pastor Nebraska)
Dear Jack: Regarding the death of God, check out TLH 167, Stanza 2. In the
original German it read, "Gott selbst is tot." That translates,
"God Himself is dead." One wonders if there were reasons other than
meter for the poor translation in TLH (LCMS Pastor Texas)
Dear Jack: "But when you say "all of God died on the cross"
your language naturally leads Trinitarians to believe that you are saying that
God the Father died and that God the Holy Spirit died." (LCMS Pastor
Illinois)
Dear brother Cascione: Sincerely-The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with
you. Please do not refrain from using the classic descriptors of the
questions! The heresies are not new. You will undoubtedly be accused of
patripassism because you aren't getting the clear answers to your questions. I
didn't do all that well in "Early Church History" but I believe you
are on the right tac. I also encourage you to continue to give as much
charitable courtesy as possible to your opponent. Now I lightly regret that I
threw "Health & Healing" out before subjecting myself to it.
Joyfully serving Jesus and His people, (LCMS Pastor Wisconsin)
Hi Jack: Just a word on this subject. What happened to the word
"paradox?" There is so much in our faith that is a paradox, and one
of them is the Trinity. Yes, we say and confess that God died on the cross.
"My Lord, my God has died for me." But we also say, and so did
Luther, that the Father did not die nor did the Holy Spirit. Heresy results
when we try to resolve the paradox. It seems to me that this is where Waldo
is, trying to comprehend the Trinity and to divide the Trinity into
"logical" parts. I join you in resisting his approach. But
especially when discussing the Trinity we need to hold in tension the
seemingly paradoxical truths that God did indeed die, and on the other hand
that the Father did not die nor did the Holy Spirit. That is why, in order to
help us poor mortals, that the Scriptures says the Son of God died on the
cross to help us distinguish between the Persons of the Trinity. (Sincerely,
LCMS Pastor California)