Posted by I wonder on September 05, 2013 at 09:06:32
In Reply to: Re: Think about it. posted by consider the source on September 05, 2013 at 01:51:37:
I guess it depends on how you understand God's omniscience and omnipotence. With the God of my understanding, there appears to be something about the Creator that constrains and empties Itself of Its own essence.
More simply put:
1. God's transcendent power appears to be constrained by free will. Humans have the power to choose and the Creator seems to have built that into the order of creation. In our power to choose, humans are "like gods."
2. An omipotent Holy Being (God) emptied itself in Jesus and became subject to human limitation and death. In other words, the all-powerful, all-knowing Creator of a billion-plus universes became a slave subject to the power of the human state. This is really a paradox. How can an all-powerful and eternal God who created black holes, galaxies and quantum particles become powerless and die? According to my reading of scripture, the Holy One chose to be subject to His/Its own creation. More or less like a Zen koan, eh?
In case this sounds like unfathomable gobbledy-gook to you, I can only put it this way. The God of my understanding is not something I truly understand at all. It's something I experience and of which I try to make sense.