(September 9, 2009 at 7:24 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Well I'm getting beyond myself here perhaps.. but Jesus being 100% God and 100% man does not = God = Man. Or that the two are the same. Jesus being alive now does not = an actual human. We, being made in God's image also contain God. Jesus is the perfect realisation of that. We can't attain that but strive for it.
Does that make sense? As I said, the belief in Jesus also requires faith. ie it isn't logical. We cannot know again.
Okay, but Jesus cannot be 100% God & 100% Man ... by definition that is impossible.
In this instance I fail to see how that could be reasoned at all. Even if Jesus wasn't actually alive he was still within the natural universe and therfore was natural, him being God means that God was natural ergo; we have a contradiction which seems irreconsilable by reson.
I just find it strange how these two tenets of a religion seem logically incompatible. Yet are still accepted on nothing more than their face value as 'tenets of the religion'.
Sam
"We need not suppose more things to exist than are absolutely neccesary." William of Occam
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt" William Shakespeare (Measure for Measure: Act 1, Scene 4)
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt" William Shakespeare (Measure for Measure: Act 1, Scene 4)
