We who believe that God really lived on earth, and took upon Him the low estate of human form, for the purpose of man’s salvation, are very far from thinking as those do who refuse to believe that God cares for anything.
…Fortunately, however, it is a part of the creed of Christians even to believe that God did die, and yet that He is alive for evermore.
Tertullian
The Five Books Against Marcion, Book II
Chapter XVI