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NASB | 2 Corinthians 5:21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Corinthians 5:21 He made Christ who knew no sin to [judicially] be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we would become the righteousness of God [that is, we would be made acceptable to Him and placed in a right relationship with Him by His gracious lovingkindness]. |
Subject: Did Jesus die spiritually? |
Bible Note: Mommapbs, It may help to think of spiritual death as a loss of supernatural grace which is basis of our participation in the life of God as his children. So Adam and Eve lost the grace of justice and sanctification when they fell as well as suffering the physical effects including, eventually, physical death. But Jesus is True God as well as True Man and could suffer only the human physical and emotional suffering and death that comes from the separation of the human soul and body. But He could not loose grace because He did not sin and grace is the essence of God's life, because Jesus although He died as a man, did not cease to be God the Son. But in his humanity He had the same horro of physical death which all humans have, because death destroys our integrated self as God created us to be, which is why the resurrection of the body is a central dogma of the Christian faith. The only spiritual sense in which He dies was the separation of His human soul (human spirit) from his human body. Even the human soul can not die except to loose grace. The integrated human being dies when the body is separated from the soul and the body decays because it has lost its connection to the sould which is its animating life force. This is the inevitable result of sin. Emmaus |