I am not a Muslim but I still have problems with your explanation. You say that God entered into his creation through Jesus and suffered the punishment that sinners deserve. What is that punishment? It is not merely physical death but spiritual death, i.e., being separated from God. So the bigger question is: "How Can God Die a Spiritual Death"?
"The God of the bible punishes all sins?"
This is an unsubstantiated point. It is not biblical, but rather quite depends on a particular and peculiar understanding of atonement which–in this speaker's usage–is quite beyond the pale of biblical teaching.
There are numerous references in Scripture to God passing over sins without need for punishment. Alas, the very idea of "forgiveness" presupposes such passing over. To dissolve the "justice" of God in the idea of the universal "punishment" of sins enacted through the peculiar self-chastisement of Godself in the person of Christ is not only unbiblical, but patently illogical. If God's "justice" can be satisfied through God punishing Godself in Christ, it seems equally "just" that God would simply forget the whole matter and get over whatever divine animosity God has towards God's creation. As God, in eternal omnipotence, is immeasurably free to pursue either course, we find no logical directive which would define what is and isn't "just" for God to do. The justice of God is determined ONLY by that which God, in fact, does, not by human opinions about what God should do in order to be considered just.
Now, regarding the question of whether God did or didn't die in Christ's death, I think the speaker pretty much bungles the answer in his attempt to disparage Islamic theology. The history of this question is long and treacherous, heresy lining each side of the narrow road which one must tread in answering it. Moreover, the "answer" to the question, like the explanation of the Incarnation, is ultimately a paradox. For while God in Christ did most certainly participate in the suffering and death of Christ, this occurred according to Christ's human nature so that Christ's eternal nature was neither altered nor extinguished in the midst of its participation. Becoming any more specific than that is to invoke the most ancient of heresies.
I am not a Muslim but I still have problems with your explanation. You say that God entered into his creation through Jesus and suffered the punishment that sinners deserve. What is that punishment? It is not merely physical death but spiritual death, i.e., being separated from God. So the bigger question is: "How Can God Die a Spiritual Death"?
"The God of the bible punishes all sins?"
This is an unsubstantiated point. It is not biblical, but rather quite depends on a particular and peculiar understanding of atonement which–in this speaker's usage–is quite beyond the pale of biblical teaching.
There are numerous references in Scripture to God passing over sins without need for punishment. Alas, the very idea of "forgiveness" presupposes such passing over. To dissolve the "justice" of God in the idea of the universal "punishment" of sins enacted through the peculiar self-chastisement of Godself in the person of Christ is not only unbiblical, but patently illogical. If God's "justice" can be satisfied through God punishing Godself in Christ, it seems equally "just" that God would simply forget the whole matter and get over whatever divine animosity God has towards God's creation. As God, in eternal omnipotence, is immeasurably free to pursue either course, we find no logical directive which would define what is and isn't "just" for God to do. The justice of God is determined ONLY by that which God, in fact, does, not by human opinions about what God should do in order to be considered just.
Now, regarding the question of whether God did or didn't die in Christ's death, I think the speaker pretty much bungles the answer in his attempt to disparage Islamic theology. The history of this question is long and treacherous, heresy lining each side of the narrow road which one must tread in answering it. Moreover, the "answer" to the question, like the explanation of the Incarnation, is ultimately a paradox. For while God in Christ did most certainly participate in the suffering and death of Christ, this occurred according to Christ's human nature so that Christ's eternal nature was neither altered nor extinguished in the midst of its participation. Becoming any more specific than that is to invoke the most ancient of heresies.
There are two refutations to this video here:
http://thefactsaboutislam.blogspot.com/2010/08/so-christian-missionary-group.html
Sadly, some evangelists don't really think things through thoroughly