THE Deity did not die for sin; Why should the deity die for the transgression of His own law, by the creature formed from the dust by His own hand? Did,
God, the Mighty Maker, die,
For man the creature's sin ?
Superstition and ignorance, parent and child of the flesh, say, He did; but the word of Reconciliation affirms no such absurdity. This word saith that "Deity condemed sin in the flesh," that flesh died on the cross.
Jesus, or Yahweh Tzidkenu (He who shall be our righteousness) was Son of the Deity by creation, and the son of man by the flesh developed from Mary, the descendant of David's substance, without human intervention. Hence, his flesh was the same flesh as First Adam, with which ours is identical.
A man's descent is traced from his father. Jesus, Yah or "Jehovah," was, therefore, the power of the Deity his Father, "born of a woman, and made under the law." He was, therefore, a DIVINE SON; and in that sense, "Deity manifested in flesh," as a father is manifested in a son. Where a son dies or is murdered, his father is not put to death; the manifestation only of the father through the dead son is interrupted, or, if not raised to life, destroyed.
Yah-Jesus-claimed equality with Deity in claiming to be the "Incorruptible Deity's" Son. He was therefore a Divine Man, in the original scripture styled Eloah, and in the common version, "God." This was the God that died, not the Almighty Maker of the universe.
The Power which constituted this Second Adam, Eloah, or a man of Divine Power, made all things for His power manifested and embodied in this Eloah. His maternal flesh was anointed; it did not anoint itself, because weakness cannot "anoint" itself "with power;" and "Jesus was anointed with power," and then "went about doing good and healing." "The flesh profits nothing." Hence, in his case it was destroyed, and exists no more. Sin was condemned in it; and on his ascending to the Father, (not his assumption, or "taking up into heaven,") his flesh restored to life became spirit (was raised to equality with angelnature, which is the Father's, for "the Deity is the spirit,") or power almighty embodied, "the Eloah of the heavens;" "He who was, and is, and shall be" manifested at "the manifestation of the Sons of the Deity." He is now to be honored as the Father, Jno. 5,23; because the Father has so ordained.
The begettal of Yehoshua, or Jesus (He who shall save) by Holy Spirit, or power, and of the will of the Deity, made him "more Deity than any other man," but not less sin's flesh" than we. "I said ye are Elohim; and all of you sons of the Most High. Surely as man ye shall die, and as one of the princes ye shall fall." This was said to them to whom the word of the deity came (Jno. 10:33,36,) to Israel. Thus a special class of men, though mortal, are styled Elohim, or Gods, in the sense of being the Sons of the Deity. I suppose you use the phrase "any other man," as indicative and comprehensive of all the men and women of our common race. Of these, then, the scripture plainly teaches, that there is no more Deity in them than in "the beasts that perish" for "they are beasts" and "have no preeminence above a beast"-Eccles. 3:18,19 ; Psalms 49:12,20. "Any other man," than Jesus and obedient believers under the several dispensations of the past and present, are Devils, or sinners under condemnation. Their relations to the Deity are all antagonistic, inimical and diabolical. Jesus was "more deity" than his brethren in that he was generated independently of the will of the flesh, but not less flesh than they. Truly, as Paul says concerning this subject, "great is the mystery of godliness, Deity manifested in flesh, &c." (1866)