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:'''''The Spirit left Him''', in the Garden of Gethsemane. '''He had to die, a man'''. Remember, friends, He didn’t have to do that. That was God. '''God anointed that flesh, which was human flesh'''. And '''He didn’t…If He’d a went up there, as God, He’d have never died that kind of death; can’t kill God.''' But He didn’t have to do it.<ref>William Marrion Branham, 65-0418M - It Is The Rising Of The Sun, para. 241</ref> | :'''''The Spirit left Him''', in the Garden of Gethsemane. '''He had to die, a man'''. Remember, friends, He didn’t have to do that. That was God. '''God anointed that flesh, which was human flesh'''. And '''He didn’t…If He’d a went up there, as God, He’d have never died that kind of death; can’t kill God.''' But He didn’t have to do it.<ref>William Marrion Branham, 65-0418M - It Is The Rising Of The Sun, para. 241</ref> | ||
These comments by William Branham are clearly heretical. Jesus was no less God when he died on the cross than in any other point in his life. Jesus was | These comments by William Branham are clearly heretical. Jesus was no less God when he died on the cross than in any other point in his life. Jesus was 100% God and 100% man. | ||
The Nestorian heresy, from the 5th century, effectively holds Jesus as having two persons as well as two natures in Christ. But if this were so, then when Christ sacrificed his life on the cross, it was not the person who is also divine, the Son of God, who died for us. In this case, the atoning sacrifice of Christ would have no divine value and could not be efficacious for our sins. Only if one and the same person, who is both God and man, dies on the cross for our sin can we be saved. For unless Jesus is both God and man he cannot reconcile God and man. But the Bible says clearly, “there is one God, and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Tim. 2:5). | The Nestorian heresy, from the 5th century, effectively holds Jesus as having two persons as well as two natures in Christ. But if this were so, then when Christ sacrificed his life on the cross, it was not the person who is also divine, the Son of God, who died for us. In this case, the atoning sacrifice of Christ would have no divine value and could not be efficacious for our sins. Only if one and the same person, who is both God and man, dies on the cross for our sin can we be saved. For unless Jesus is both God and man he cannot reconcile God and man. But the Bible says clearly, “there is one God, and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Tim. 2:5). | ||