Christian/Muslim ThreadsWhy wont Muhammed come back at Judgement?Peace humble_guest and others, Now the fallacy humble_guest that you commit in your reasoning is that of false dilemma and false analogy (A circle can only become a square if you impose the characteristics of a square – i.e. the existence of 4 sides on that circle i.e. you compromise between the 2 shapes - i'll talk more about this in the end of my post regarding your very last comment.) Christian/Biblical theology does not entail that God compromised his divine nature for a human nature nor imposed the characteristics of one upon the other, but rather He allowed for both natures to co-exist in a perfect hypostatic union. Christ was/is eternally existent as God, all that happened at the incarnation was that Christ “added” a human nature to his immutable divine nature. His divinity parted not from his humanity for a single moment nor a twinkle of an eye, they were united without mingling, without confusion and without alteration. This is a reality emphasized by the linguistics of St Pauls statement who asserted in Phil. 2, that Christ, “being (Greek- hyperchon) in the form of God”. "The word - hyperchon (greek for "being") - expresses continuance of antecedent state or condition." (Rienecker & Rogers, Linguistic Key to the Greek New Testament) "For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form," Colossians 2:9 The term for "dwell" - katoikei, is also a present participle denoting continuous action or existence, affirming that Jesus continues to exist as absolute and perfect Deity in bodily form. He voluntarily accepted the limitations of his humanity, which in no way contradicts the fact his divine nature was always present, because he simply voluntarily chose not exercise his divine attributes during his earthly sojourn. God is immutable, and so also to is Christ immutable (Heb 13:8, 1:11-12), the incarnation did not compromise his divinity with his humanity. Just for curiosities sake: The concept of the hypostatic union is vitally important when considering the sacrifice of Christ. “Jesus' sacrifice was divine, as well as human, in nature. Jesus died. But, we know that God cannot die. So, if the divine nature did not die, how can it be said that Jesus' sacrifice was divine in nature? The answer is that the attributes of divinity, as well as humanity, were ascribed to the person Jesus. Therefore, since the person of Jesus died, His death was of infinite value because the properties of divinity were ascribed to the person in His death. This is called the Communicatio Idiomatum.” - Matt Slick False analogy and False dilemma. The above statement would only be valid if Christian theology were to assert that human characteristics were imposed upon his divine characteristics – in this case we have the characteristics of a human compromising the characteristics of God, and therefore just as the circle can no longer be called a circle, God would no longer be able to be called God. But the fact of the matter is, Christian theology asserts that the two natures aren’t compromised into a new nature – they existed together in perfect unity without transmutation (as I expressed above), and its simply a matter of the attributes of one nature (the human) being voluntarily adhered to, instead of the attributes of the other nature (the divine) which in turn are voluntarily laid aside. humble_guest...on a side note bro: You sound like a smart guy and im personally quite confident that after this post you will find no logical problem in understanding how God's omnipotence allowed for what i described above, without presenting a logical contradiciton in his nature. Im simply expressing my personal opinion that i believe if you continue to pursue this issue, that it would be purely for arguments sake, because i personally believe you're educated enough to at least accept the fact that what Christian thelogy properly asserts regarding this issue as i have discussed above, is intellectually tenable and logical. |
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