(August 10, 2010 at 9:57 pm)RAD Wrote: He does seem to have been a man, always insightful even at age 12, yet showing considerable vulnerability, being surprised at a turn of events, unaware how much faith some person had, etc. Nevertheless, he seems to have become invulnerable after the transfiguration. So he began as less than the essence of God, and ended up as the very essence. It's the only explanation I can think of, but then I'm assured I cannot possibly think as well as an atheist.
I understand that you are trying to rationalise the dogma with the contradiction. But you are not only paying an intellectual price for doing do it just can't be the case. The reason is you are staing Jesus became a god and was therefore not eternal and not fully a god. Even of this were possible he would have needed to become infinite and immaterial which he didn't even after death because he was bodily resurrected and therefore still material. I'm afraid this does not reslve the contradiction. Which if I précis it is: Jesus could not be fully man (limited) and fully god (unlimited) and therefore chrstianity is founded on a fallacy and is false.
