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This video is a response to Tough Questions for Christians #35: The "Ultimate" Sacrifice
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@H2drO34
First, dyslexia is a real condition, that many use as an excuse even though they do not have it. I have actually been diagnosed with the learning disability and have to live with it every day. When people critique my spelling ability is the only time I mention it as it really does affect me.
second, I do not consider your comment about spelling to be trolling, I considered your attack on my educational level to be trolling.
RationalRoundtable 1 year ago
no need to troll, if you want to discuss, I have no objection.
BTW, I happen to be dyslexic, so no, spelling is not, never has been, nor likely ever will be my strong suit.
RationalRoundtable 1 year ago
RRt: Even if I don't agree with you I appreciate your line of reasoning and the way you bring it forward.
StopSpamming1 2 years ago
It would stand to reason, that if God transferred himself to human form in the body of Christ that this would mean that there was only one God, however if God exists outside of Time as we know it and Christ was temporal as humans all are, even though he became human from our perspective both forms would appear to exist at the same time, thus Christ could pray to God while at the same time being God. In a way, you may have just explained in part the mystery of the Trinity.
RationalRoundtable 2 years ago
Now that is an interesting idea, however it seams that this might violate the law of non-contradiction, however in a way perhaps that is exactly what God did, in the form of Christ.
Many theologians suggest that Christ was God made flesh in a very real way. Perhaps part of the sacrifice was in fact the way that God allowed his very essence to inhabit a mere human body. After all it would seam clear that God likely would not feel pain like you and I do, but it is also clear that Christ suffered.
RationalRoundtable 2 years ago
For a human, not much else. For God, he could have sacrificed his divinity. How much is mortality next to divinity?
Gilmaris 2 years ago
Interesting, beyond torture and death, how much more could he have sacrificed?
RationalRoundtable 2 years ago
If Jesus was a normal man, his sacrifice would in fact be greater, as he sacrificed no more than a normal man could. If he was more than a man, however, his mortal sacrifice would actually be diminished, if anything, because he would be able to sacrifice that much more.
Gilmaris 2 years ago
I think that this would make an interesting subject for debate among believers. I am currently working toward a masters in Divinity and I find it fascinating that many who spend a great deal of time in the scripture can have legitimate disagreements about some of it's meaning. One thing that bothers me about Biblical education is of course that what point of view one has is often the result of the ideology of the school involved.
RationalRoundtable 2 years ago