Greatest I Am
According to scripture, it was love for God’s children which caused him to send His Son ~ another chance since the gates of the Garden of Eden having been closed because of Adam and Eve’s disobedience.
How is it God’s fault? Why do you look at it as the Father “making the the Son fail”?
Why would He send him in the first place? To tease his children? This is no different than how we like to blame others for our own faults of omission and our own lack of responsibility. God sent his son and many rejected him but many accepted and followed him. We cannot really look on a God as having failed. How long has Christianity flourished?
The Trinity is very difficult to understand. I used to like to think of it as One person with multiple or three personalities/characters. I would hardly call it stupid though it is so enigmatic. I think it is a human trait to call things which we do not understand as stupid. Some might call these things mysteries.
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[b]These men—Basil, bishop of Caesarea, his brother Gregory, bishop of Nyssa, and Gregory of Nazianzus—were all “trained in Greek philosophy” (Armstrong, p. 113), which no doubt affected their outlook and beliefs (see “Greek Philosophy’s Influence on the Trinity Doctrine “).
In their view, as Karen Armstrong explains, “the Trinity only made sense as a mystical or spiritual experience . . . It was not a logical or intellectual formulation but an imaginative paradigm that confounded reason. Gregory of Nazianzus made this clear when he explained that contemplation of the Three in One induced a profound and overwhelming emotion that confounded thought and intellectual clarity.
“ ‘No sooner do I conceive of the One than I am illumined by the splendor of the Three; no sooner do I distinguish Three than I am carried back into the One. When I think of any of the Three, I think of him as the whole, and my eyes are filled, and the greater part of what I am thinking escapes me’ ” (p. 117). Little wonder that, as Armstrong concludes, “For many Western Christians . . . the Trinity is simply baffling” (ibid.). [/b]
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As a Mom, I can understand the emotional human side of what you are saying but I couldn’t say that it was a cowardly act. People just look at it from a human perspective instead of a supernatural one. I could not begin to even imagine sending my son or daughter to take my place where they might be hurt or killed.
But we have to look at it from the ad continuum Story of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit (who was also sent to do the work of the other two (I think).
I think that you meant to say to have the *offspring die out before the older. Yes?
Anyway, this is all myth to me now. There was a time when I believed all of this but I can still talk about it. The way I look at it though, Christ was not sacrificed without his own personal okay in the matter. lol His will was not taken away since his will was actually one with the father’s. Being equals as part of the Trinity, he could not have been coerced or lied to.
What I was trying to get at was the idea of free will. Evidently, there were some who accepted Christ and some who did not.
My thinking may be wrong here but if all had accepted Christ then that might prove the lack of free will.
What could God have done? Created us all as puppets with one mind as with the Borg after the Fall?
Did God make a mistake, considering what happened in the Garden, in allowing humans to retain their free will?