Can God Really Suffer? Self-Test Question Title * 1. The early church tended to understand Jesus' self-emptying ('kenosis') as constituting God's Triune nature freely expressing the Son's begottenness Jesus voluntarily refraining from using his divine attributes the logos (or Word) limiting himself in becoming incarnate Question Title * 2. Martin Luther taught that because the Son died, so did the divine essence God's impassability determines our view of the cross, as 'strengthening our weakness' the cross determines our view of God, as 'powerfully weak' the Son only seemed to suffer, but did not as divine nature is immortal Question Title * 3. Which answers from among those four are heretical, that is truly and fully unacceptable, in the church's opinion? (Check all that apply.) because the Son died, so did the divine essence God's impassability determines our view of the cross, as 'strengthening our weakness' the cross determines our view of God, as 'powerfully weak' the Son only seemed to suffer, but did not as divine nature is immortal Question Title * 4. Imagine someone who reacted to this lecture with this objection: "What difference does it make?" (Perhaps you are that someone.) Can you explain to that person in your own words what is significant or revealing about this difference over how to understand God in light of the cross of Jesus? Done