RE: Why, God? Why?!
February 8, 2018 at 5:18 pm
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2018 at 5:21 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(February 8, 2018 at 4:59 pm)SteveII Wrote: First, I think God changes. Jesus' life would be an experience God did not have prior--a change. A relationship with Christians is a change.
That is if we think of Jesus Christ as a baby, becoming a youth, then a fully grown man as seen from within our temporal framework. And yet in its entirety the Life of Christ is, from an eternalist perspective, the full and complete expression of the Divine Will.
But the whole problem is embedded in the seemingly binary choice between eternalism and presentism, neither of which seems entirely right and yet it also seems like those are the only two choices.
(February 8, 2018 at 5:12 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: I thought I’d raise my questions and hear some answers.Personally, I don't think there are any good answers.
That said, my opinion is that pondering the question makes me as a Christian appreciate the concept of Grace as something God never needed to give us and yet for some inexplicable reason has.