(September 9, 2012 at 8:23 pm)Rayaan Wrote:(September 9, 2012 at 7:57 pm)greneknight Wrote: The problem comes with most people because they have a DIFFERENT understanding of "God". So, when I say, "Jesus is God", they take Jesus to be an entity and God to be another real entity.
Assuming Jesus is God, would that exclude the idea that Jesus was a man also? Or is he still nothing but a metaphor?
I know the former Archbishop of York in my church wrote an article about why Jesus never existed at all. But I don't agree with him. I think Jesus probably existed. You can be both a man and a metaphor. For example, you can take me to be the paragon of guilelessness. So greneknight is a real person and greneknight is also a metaphor for guilelessness as Padriac will vouch for. You can use it in a sentence as in "Jesus looked at Nathaniel and said, "Truly there is no one who comes closer to greneknight than Nathaniel". (Note: Nathaniel was the chap Jesus said was the most guileless in the whole of Judea).