Now, there's the trinity, which is God the Father, the Holy Spirit and God the Son. The symbolism here gets to be pretty beautiful. If we look at The Son as us on Earth, that part that is both human and Godly, that limited conciousness, then we can assume that The Father is the sum of all the little parts. The Father would be the ultimate conciousness, the great combination of all the little Sons running around being concious in their own little ways. That leaves a fair amount of separation. So, for the trinity to be complete, there has to the The Spirit. I believe, and this is where we might disagree, that The Spirit is the ability for The Father and The Son to intersect. And here's where the symbolism gets lovely: an intersection is shapped like a cross. Love it.
Anyway, I believe that through The Spirit we, even as humans, can do things that are truly divine. Love, care for one another, make choices to help each other. Somtimes it's very small things, but they can be very significant. I think it is also important that they are small. For, if as we have agreed that our conciousness is a part of God and that God is the summation of all our conciousnesses, whatever happens to us happens to God. Like Jesus said "Whatever you do to the least of my brothers you do unto me." Right? So in this context, the smallest charity can be seen as divine since, in the grand scheme of things, we are only capable of such tiny charities, but they can mean so much to the person receiving them.
That all being said, I think The Spirit is our ability to intersect, if only so very breifly with The Father. It's true that we cannot become God and we cannot, I suppose, become truly divine until we die and our conciousness returns to God, but in our own little ways I think we can definitely do wonderful things and beautiful things and reach that intersection from time to time. It's just so hard to tell when we are there, since it's so hard to tell the consequences to our actions.
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Anyway, I think we are all the Son of God in that we are all offshoots of God. If we all have a piece of God, our consciousness, in us, then we all must be His sons. I think Jesus, and maybe some others, like the Saints or Buddha, etc, was the only one to really epitomize the term, being as close to God as a human can, but I don't think that counts the rest of us out. For instance, there's a lot of theory about the Torah and Numerology, right? And they believe that the entire Torah is one huge word/number that God spoke that started Creation. That's sorta the wattered down version of it. Anyway, they've actually found evidence, when you look at the numbers, that there is a link to this huge long number and human DNA. Freaky, huh? So they thought maybe Jesus's DNA had a code sequencing that was uncannily close to the Torah number.
I digress. I think the distance from God is important, though. Take angels for instance. When you really get down to thinking about it, angels are basically mindless, soulless automatons that do God's bidding. They have no ability to really reason or think for themselves, which is why, I presume, they would be allowed to close to God. (This is all based off of traditional mythology, most of which is completely outdated, but it still teaches us a valuable lesson). Now, us humans have that distance from God, even if we are all part of God in the end. That distance allows us to have free will, but because we have Grace, we are not cut off from God. We can choose evil and then choose to return to God. And through our journeys, everything we experience God experiences. Which is why we can never be God, because He experiences everything at once at all times. We could never bear that with our limited consciousness. So we have to journey through life trying to experience as much of it and trying to experience other people's experiences as much as possible, knowing that everything we experience God experiences and that although we are cut off from Him we are still a part of Him. That's what I think it means to be the Son of God.
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"He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God."
i think it's rather clear that we can all become children of God.. but to say we are the 'son of God' is a little far fetched in my mind... Jesus was the son of God because of this
"How will this be," Mary asked the angel, "since I am a virgin?"
The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God."
He was the Son of God, because he was concieved through the Holy Spirit.. not because he had God in him through his conciousness and because god experienced all the things he experienced. he was truely the son of god.
yeah. his divinity is what separates him from us. i just wish it was easier for me to understand and believe that.
i think eveyone struggles with believing parts of it at times. (: it's quite normal in the world we live in.
if there had not been a virgin birth.. the rest of the 'story' really has no foundation. it took me a while to really grasp that. Without his divinity everything is just nothing.
yeah.
why doesn't the rest of the story have any foundation if he isn't literally the son of God?
"without divinity, everything is just nothing."
why do you say that?
this was sort of thrown at me a while ago.. and i understood, but i'm not so sure i can explain why now.
i came to this realization a few months ago.. the question was something like why was the virgin birth so important.. and i thought i had an okay answer (this was a test for bible class).. but when i got it back i noticed that i got points of on that question.. he wrote a comment and i thought about it some and i realized that.. and i think part of it is that if he was not god- so much of what he taught would be a lie and what he did.. i know this isn't the best answer.. :S i honestly think i'll think about this more and try to remember my previous thoughts. (and then post again)
but why would it all be a lie? i don't get that...
okay. look forward to it. :)
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