(September 20, 2020 at 5:02 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(September 20, 2020 at 4:10 pm)Greatest I am Wrote: Why is Jesus in third place when he deserves first?
Jesus says he is doing his fathers will and not his own. This diminishes him.
We can curse Yahweh and Jesus, but not the Holy Ghost. This elevates the H G above Jesus.
Yahweh created a chimera son and then showed himself to be a deadbeat dad. This reduces him.
Jesus died for us while Yahweh shirked his duty to his child. Right?
This diminishes Yahweh and elevates Jesus.
I think Jesus should be elevated, thanks to those facts.
The religions sorely need a judge and logos and using that Jesus archetype and scrapping the Yahweh archetype is what Jesus was trying to tell us.
I think Yahweh should take third place. Better still, eliminate third place and the adoration of a genocidal and immoral god.
Why is Jesus in third place in the Trinity when he deserves first place, above the genocidal one, unless you see Jesus doing genocide at the end of days?
Regards
DL
There are no ‘places’. The Father, Son and the Holy Spirit are three aspects of the same Being. It’s not even a case of split personalities, as some have argued. It’s three parts of one personality. You can have athletic Joe, contemplative Joe, and funny Joe, but there’s still only Joe.
That’s the Catholic answer. The atheist answer is, ‘THIS is what concerns you about Christianity? Seriously?’
Boru
When I was a religious person I thought of the three aspects of God as universal and expressive of the organization of reality. The spirit or father is the thingness of a thing like the kernel of the thing, whereas the holy ghost is the energetic essence or astral part (I was a dualist of course), Then the son was the material. With this model all the things are concurrent and equally important within the triune being. This jived with my idea that we were constructed in the image of god having spirit, soul, and body; although so do rocks, trees, bees, and bugs.
