God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.
Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.
The idea of being the Substitute in offering an atonement to satisfy the demands of God’s law for others was something Christ understood as His mission from the moment He entered this world and took upon Himself a human nature. He came from heaven as the gift of the Father for the express purpose of working out redemption as our Substitute, doing for us what we could not possibly do for ourselves.
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