[TruthTalk] illusion? theory? theology?

[Wm. Taylor]

Welcome to my illusion. I mean theory. Oh I mean theology. Or whatever it is. Welcome,   Isn't it funny how things come full circle? We're back to asking Where the heck do we get this stuff. That's what intrigued me from the biginning. Joe says, the Bible!      NO! says Smo, MINE COMES FROM THE BIBLE! YOU'RE GOING TO THAT HELL PLACE TO BE WITH DEAR OL' AUNT BESSY!   Well then, that settles it.   -- But is anyone fed? Are you satified?   This is what prompted me to write to David in the first place, not to tell him that history says he's right, and so therefore it must be the truth; but to assure him that there is historical presidence from which to draw. He's not all wet, in other words. This is also what the early church was defending against heretics who wanted so say that Jesus could not have a human mind. Why? because it didn't fit with their Greek mindset that said that evil was in matter by virtue of matter being matter. Thus anything physical is evil; therefore the only part of Jesus which was divine was his mind, which could therefore not be human. Athanasius (that dead guy who authored the Nicene Creed) said, NO! that is mythology! Jesus had to have a human mind, too, because that is where evil is at it's strongest. If Jesus did not have a human mind, then he did not heal us there. We're still in our sin.   And so the battle raged. Eventually the Church went along with Athanasius, and Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory of Naziansus, and myriad others, to reaffirm and uphold this biblical truth.   It was only when a hundred years later that the Artemis worship of Ephesus had blossomed into the worship of Mary that the Church bagan to capitulate on this teaching. What a said day it was when the Church finally let go of Christ's humanity, because when it did it threw his Divinity so far away from us that we cannot see him any longer. All we're left with is an angry God, standing behind the back of Jesus, saying, I'm going to get you, just like I got dear ol' aunt Bessy.   Bill.