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Let's go to the studio with Dr. Craig.

Dr. Hindani introduces his fourth and final argument in this next clip.

Here it is.

So the fourth argument that I would give is that in Craig's understanding both of the Trinity and of the incarnation, the Son of God literally dies on the cross, and that entails

that God, the Trinity, dies on the cross.

And I'm going to explain how we get that.

Okay.

He'll elaborate some more.

That's just an introduction.

But Bill, has there ever been a legitimate view in Christianity that allows for the death

of one of the persons of the Trinity? Absolutely, Kevin. This is something that became very clear

to me in my recent study of Christology in reading the church fathers.

The church fathers freely affirmed things like God, the son, died on the cross, just as they

affirm that Mary, the Virgin Mary, was the mother of God. Now, they didn't mean that God died in his divine nature or that in his divine

nature, God was born of Mary. But what they mean is that the person who was Jesus Christ

was a divine person. He was the second person of the Trinity. And so, yes, God the son died on the cross

with respect to his human nature. He was born of the Virgin Mary with respect to his human nature.

So it is unobjectionable to say things like God died on the cross so long as you

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