Thanks so much! I appreciate your participation.

Thanks a lot for your answers. I think you do a wonderful job, keep it up.

How is dying different from sinning? While death may be a result of original sin (Adam and Eve’s), there is nothing inherently sinful about dieing. There is nothing in the bible that says that someone sins when they die. Jesus was 100% God but He was also 100% man, which would mean that He had the ability to die.

You are correct that Jesus died to take away our penalty of sin, and He did do this willfully. This act did not go against God’s character. This act was a result of God’s merciful character, as He doesn’t wish anyone to perish.

2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

The bible does say that God can’t lie. Here are 2 verses regarding that.

Numbers 23:19
” God is not a man, that He should lie,Nor a son of man, that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it?Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

Titus 1:2
in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago,

I’m so thankful that He can’t lie because that means He will keep His promises to us.

I hope I answered your question. Please feel free to continue to ask questions to clarify or ask other questions that come up.

To continue with my original question, I must take your last answer. God cannot lie because he is holy by nature. Lying is considered a sin, and sins cannot be commited by holy beings as God, not even if they are willing to do it. However, God can die for our sins when he wills it. How is dying different from sinning? As a matter of fact, death is the result of sin. A holly being that cannot lie when it wills it, taking into consideration that the being is also omnipotent, could not die when he wills it. Because God is immortal as He is holly, he cannot go against his nature. Being omnipotent does not imply acting against one’s nature, since it would be not possible.

Thanks for your time (and patience.

God can’t sin, because He is holy. Because He can’t sin He can’t lie.

Can God lie, can he lie if he is willing to do it? If not, why not?

Thanks for your comment. You said:

“How can God, who hols life in his hands and is, by definition and concept, immortal, die?”

Jesus was God and He was a man. He certainly could have stopped His death but He knew what He came to earth to do, so He allowed it. I think you are also asking for the “how”. How could God die? If God is all powerful He can do anything. Is there anything He can’t do? Can’t he allow others to murder Him so that He could pay for our sins and then raise Himself from the dead?

Please let me know if you have any other thoughts or questions.

My intention is not to sustain a particular position, but to point out what I consider to be an incomplete and unvalid answer to a question. I quote an argument to sustain a position about Jesus’ death at the end of my comment,in which the answerer did not respond directly to the question, but chose to quote a prophecy and appeal to consequences (argumentum ad consequentiam). The question itself about how God can die remains unanswered. I must point out that this may constitute a great field for debate among believers or between believers and not believers.

How can God, who hols life in his hands and is, by definition and concept, immortal, die?

“If Jesus is God, how did mere human beings have the power to kill him, considering life and death is in His hands? Also, why would, and how can God die? I know the “He died for our sins” belief, but that’s not the answer I’m looking for.

Jesus offered Himself up to die. Of course He could have stopped it, but He knew He had to die in order to pay for our sins. Read John 18:4-6. When the soldiers came to arrest Him, they fell to the ground when He spoke to them. He had the power to stop them but He chose to sacrifice Himself instead. That was the plan from the very beginning, as prophesied in Isaiah 53. This amazing prophesy was written way before Jesus was ever born and it talks about how He was pierced for our transgressions. You said this isn’t the answer you are looking for, but it is the answer that Jesus Himself gave. If He had chosen not to allow
them to crucify him, there would be no payment for sin and we would not have the possibility of salvation. We would all have to stand condemned before God for our sin with no way of escaping punishment.”