RE: Did Jesus decompose?
March 8, 2019 at 10:51 am
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2019 at 10:52 am by The Grand Nudger.)
If jesus were incapable of sinning then the temptation of christ, a narrative that the authors saw important enough to include in matthew, mark, and luke, would be reduced to contrived drama. In a similar vein, if jesus were not fully human his sacrificial value would be diminished. He had to suffer.
OFC any paradox can be conceptually resolved by simply affirming one side or the other..but in the case of christology the issue becomes the theological equivalent of a hydra. You chop off one head, two more appear. This intractability is why the proto-christian authorities punted on the issue and decided to include two contradictory camps, declaring it a "mystery".
You're not supposed to be able to resolve it, and any attempt -to- resolve it erodes some other christological concept.
OFC any paradox can be conceptually resolved by simply affirming one side or the other..but in the case of christology the issue becomes the theological equivalent of a hydra. You chop off one head, two more appear. This intractability is why the proto-christian authorities punted on the issue and decided to include two contradictory camps, declaring it a "mystery".
You're not supposed to be able to resolve it, and any attempt -to- resolve it erodes some other christological concept.
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