{"id":3059,"date":"2012-03-23T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblearchive.com\/blog\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2012-03-23T10:13:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T15:13:10","slug":"philosophy-fridays-the-god-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblearchive.com\/blog\/philosophy-fridays-the-god-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy Fridays: The God-Man?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every now and then, on a Friday, I\u2019ll step into the deep waters of Philosophy, ramble away on some idea and maybe even interact with it. Most of the time, a real philosopher could probably read my drivel and speak into it offering a corrective\u2014but for now I\u2019ll speak from ignorance. After all, it\u2019s Friday; what better way to have fun than with philosophy. In this post I\u2019ll answer the question \u201cIs Jesus\u2019 divinity incompatible with his humanity?\u201d in under 700 words. Heh.<\/p>\n

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To get there, we probably have to figure out what is the stuff that is perceived to be incompatible. People come up with stupid ideas of what is essential (like erring<\/a>) but that wouldn\u2019t do. You have to get to the stuff without which you wouldn\u2019t have either a human or a God.<\/p>\n

First, what attributes are essential for a being to be the ultimate God? Well, he would have to be a necessary being, eternal (without a beginning or ending), have self-existence (not contingent on other beings), be all powerful, all knowing, not restricted by space, completely free, and I\u2019d also say all-good.<\/p>\n

A human on the other hand is a weird bag. You can surely say they\u2019re contingent, but that\u2019s on the basis of being creature. No single human is essentially necessary and, since they have a starting point, they are not eternal (even if they can live on into eternity). But how does that differentiate them from any other creature like a dog or an angel? Really doesn\u2019t. So we need to come up with a definition of a human that ties up their physical creaturleiness and their differentiation from physical creatures. Well, unlike all other animals, humans can reason, judge, and decide. So maybe we can define humans as rational animals.<\/p>\n

Jesus would then be something that is both divine and a rational animal. But how does that work?<\/p>\n

Well, maybe he is 2\/3rds<\/sup> human and 1\/3rd<\/sup> God so that he\u2019s a rational animal with God\u2019s soul\/mind. But that\u2019s problematic since it implies that God was only 2\/3rds<\/sup> committed to saving the human race: he came to save the rational animal part but not the soul\/mind.<\/p>\n

Or maybe Jesus was really a composite of two beings: one who is God and the other who is Jesus. But then that\u2019s problematic because it has Jesus incapable of doing the things God needed done and it has God not doing the things God said he would do. More so, in both cases, the Bible seems to insist that Christ is fully God (the fullness of the Godhead) and fully man (bodily).<\/p>\n

What if we suggest that God became human but what he did first was (1) set aside his divine attributes or (2) muted his divine attributes? \u00a0But that\u2019s a serious problem. If (2) that means that God\u2019s essential attributes can be dimmed and God still remains God; if (1) that means God can set aside essential attributes and still remain God: both meaning that those attributes weren\u2019t essential to God being<\/em> God. But beyond that, how is it possible for God to set aside or mute the divine attribute of eternity, aseity, or necessity?\u00a0 That would make zero sense.<\/p>\n

So maybe something else is going on. What if God already has some of the essential attributes of humans as an essential part of his divine attributes? If that was the case, then God taking on a human nature wouldn\u2019t result in setting aside anything but adding something he didn\u2019t have before, and wasn\u2019t essential to Him. Maybe \u201crationality\u201d is already an essential attribute of God so all he\u2019s doing is taking on that animal-aspect so that he remains fully God, fully human, but on account that he already had what is essential to humans within him. Jesus Christ would then be one person with two natures that operate as one because the human rationality is originally God\u2019s rationality.<\/p>\n

If that was the case, it would mean that humans are humans on account of being made according to the mold, as it were. God becoming human and remaining God is amazing but not<\/em> incompatible (double negative?): it makes sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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