WE KNOW that his name was Jesus, but who was he? What was he? Who died on that cross?

The Bible calls him the Son of God. Some people say that he was the second person in a holy trinity. I find that very troubling and confusing. If he is the second person in a Godhead does that mean that one of the Gods died on a cross? That cannot be. God cannot die. Some people would object to saying that one of the Gods died. Although they are Trinitarians they profess to believe in only one God, not three. Yet, they profess that there are three persons in the Godhead. Now, if the second person died wouldn't that, at least, temporarily leave only two Gods? Or if the trinity constitutes the total of what is one God, when Jesus died was there only two thirds of a God left?

This is, of course, confusing. And the age old excuse that the trinity is a mystery and no man can understand it is an unacceptable answer, it is a cop out, a lame effort to avoid trying to substantiate an unsupportable doctrine.

God did not die on the cross. Who died on the cross?: it was the human Son of God, the son made of a woman. But you will object saying that Jesus is God. Yes, God was in him without measure. Yes, he was a physical manifestation of God who is Spirit. Yes, he was God robed in flesh, but the flesh was the vessel that God dwelt within. God was in the human body that we call the Son.

On the cross that body died, but the God within him did not.

What God was in him? Which God? If you answer that God the Son (this term is not in the Bible) was in the body that died, then you have a problem, because that will leave us with two Son's of God, a human son born of Mary and a Spirit God Son. Did the Spirit Son dwell within the human Son? The Bible certainly never says anything like that.

I have tried to provoke you to think about the dilemma trinitarians face at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. There is a Bible answer to this. It is not a mystery. It can be understood.

The Bible declares repeatedly that there is but one God, and it is that one God that dwelt in Christ at Calvary. There is no Spirit Son, eternal Son, or God the Son. None of these terms are in the Bible. The only God, the Father, dwelt in Christ. A human son died and the only God that was ever in Christ was the Father. See John 14:6-11