(November 25, 2016 at 4:07 am)Ignorant Wrote:(November 24, 2016 at 11:46 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Hmmmm. . . to me, my mind is my being. You are saying that my mind is Jesus? [1] Does this apply to everyone? [2] Is the mind of a child-molesting serial murderer Jesus? [3]
This is a new claim for me-- I don't remember reading it in the Bible. Is it a Catholic tenet? [4]
Thanks for your questions.
1) No, I am not saying that your mind is Jesus. If your mind is your being and not "being, itself", then your mind is not Jesus, who IS "being, itself".
2) No. It seems like it would ONLY apply to Jesus. On your account, ONLY Jesus's mind is Jesus. If your mind is your being, then Jesus's mind is his being. If Jesus is "being, itself", then his mind is "being, itself".
3) Clearly not. See 1 and 2.
4) Catholicism does not teach that "your" mind is Jesus. Catholicism DOES hold that Jesus is god. If god is "being, itself", then Jesus is "being, itself".
Are you defining God, or saying one of His aspects or properties? It would seem strange for "being, itself" to manifest as a burning bush, or to play party tricks with jugs of water. It would make much more sense for "a" being to do so.
But "being" is a -ness that should be global-- any individual being, if it is separate, should not be "being, itself." And since Jesus had place locality, and spoke as an individual entity rather than a global property, it would seem that Jesus must have been a man, somewhat like me, and cannot have been God in the sense that you are here defining it.