On Hell and Forgiveness

[Neo-Scholastic]

OFC, jesus, being both fully human and fully divine, could not lack important characteristics of human personhood...or the sacrifice would be diminished.  That was the point of including his nature as one of the central mysteries and tenets of the orthodox faiths.  The heterodox think that you're a loon through and through.  How could an entity be fully human, in a sacrificially meaningful way, if it were deficient in such basic and defining virtues of humanity?

I get it. :-) That was one of the central paradoxes that prompted my prior atheism. That and the Trinity. Neither made any sense to me until I started to read Swedenborg's True Christianity. Similarly, the Eucharist didn't make sense to me until I delved deeper into the Scholastics. Both were kind of like calculus, I struggled mightily because it was so foreign. But once I really got a handle on the concepts, it all started to fit together. Today, I probably couldn't explain how to work the simplest "diffy-Q" but the general understanding and respect for its beauty remains.