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>>14890946
>limited amount of suffering has the power to redeem all of mankind
It's not his suffering that redeems mankind, it is the incarnation itself which deifies human nature and thus redeems all of humanity. What you're talking about is bugman anglo protestant heresy.
>God is eternal and literally cannot die, so Jesus didn't actually die and his resurrection is meaningless.
The same argument would apply to him doing other human acts, like being born and eating. Jesus died in his flesh, but his divinity did not die or change. Since the divine person of the Logos assumed fully human nature it is natural for him to be able to eat, sleep, undergo death, descend to Hades after death as he had a human soul, etc. There's only one person (the Logos) walking around when the Apostles and the other people see him (there's no human Jesus and divine Jesus dichotomy), so one can say that this person himself underwent the experience of dying.

>The holy and great Synod therefore says, that the only begotten Son, born according to nature of God the Father, very God of very God, Light of Light, by whom the Father made all things, came down, and was incarnate, and was made man, suffered, and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven. These words and these decrees we ought to follow, considering what is meant by the Word of God being incarnate and made man. For we do not say that the nature of the Word was changed and became flesh, or that it was converted into a whole man consisting of soul and body; but rather that the Word having personally united to himself flesh animated by a rational soul, did in an ineffable and inconceivable manner become man, and was called the Son of Man, not merely as willing or being pleased to be so called, neither on account of taking to himself a person, but because the two natures being brought together in a true union, there is of both one Christ and one Son; for the difference of the natures is not taken away by the union, but rather the divinity and the humanity make perfect for us the one Lord Jesus Christ by their ineffable and inexpressible union ...
- 3rd Ecumenical Council, https://www.elpenor.org/ecumenical-councils/third.asp?pg=9

>>14890986
>The golden rule existed long before Jesus did.
God created "the golden rule", as all things in existence, visible and invisible.