I’ve always been rather curious myself as to whether the blatant incongruity of both the attitudes of Left and Right towards 'Abortion and Capital punishment'
I can't tell if you're being coy with me or not. — Thorongil
Surely Christ in the flesh was a unique emanation, and wasn't always there, right? What did Mary birth then if that's not the case? — Heister Eggcart
Wouldn't it be possible to create nothing? — Heister Eggcart
I'm being a bit coy. When I said that about the Fall, what I mean was that people have amply demonstrated their capacity to be terrible. We are terrible, and we didn't get that capacity from God, or not from God. We are just that way. The best role I can give to God in all this is that of appalled by-stander. Man didn't come from God; it's the other way around. In God we have projected our most superlative selves, something that we have not been, are not now, and likely never will be. — Bitter Crank
The Word became flesh at a certain point in time, yes, but the Word itself didn't come into being. — Thorongil
then how does it follow that the Word be-came flesh? — Heister Eggcart
God cannot create, somehow, more of himself, right? — Heister Eggcart
If Christ is God, and vice versa, surely God cannot create, somehow, more of himself, right? You just stated that the Word (God, correct?) did not come into being, which to me says that God did not facilitate his own act of being to be. In my mind, this means that God can only create the world. So, how does Christ fit into that? — Heister Eggcart
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