Not in the way that you do DaveH, but then
my understanding of God the Father differs from yours also
so I'm sure this does not surprise
you. Apart from out and out athiests everyone has a God that
they believe to be the real one and noone
will be validated until we stand before Jesus himself and he
tells us which side we are to go to..
I met an Australian Nun on a train in
Australia, she had been working with the Australian
aborigines for
40yrs in Darwin and Alice Springs as a
missionary for the RCC ... She repeated Pope
John Paul's words
and told me about
the wonderful advances being made, how indiginous tribes all believe on some level that
there is a God and how they do their dances and perform their cleansing smoke rituals at the Church
conventions they have which are ecumenical to the extreme. Merging cultures is
where it's at.
She would not call the aborigines animists
(which they are) and talked of finding the
commonalities of all
religions (Islam, Buddhism, Shinto etc.)
so as to blend them - because all believe there is a God. So this
Nun has been
sent to Melbourne now to teach these
classes at the University level and when I questioned
some of her assumptions this nice lady
quoted Jesus words: "In my Fatherhouse
house there are many
mansions" - So now paganism is added to the mix. Only problem is that noone gets to
the mansions
or dwelling places outside of Christ. You
would think that God messed up when He judged and destroyed
the Canaanite Nations wouldn't you? Now
iniquity is abounding and confusion
reigns. The love of many
has waxed cold. All like sheep have gone
astray and turned everyone to his own way. judyt
DAVEH: While on the way to work yesterday morning, I was
listening to a Christian radio station that was playing a sermon given
by a minister who spent some time explaining that Jesus was fully
God. That got me thinking about how he could be fully God, and yet
not be fully God if people saw his face and did not die. So....do you
believe he was fully God, Judy? From your below answer, I
assume not.
However.....I assume you now believe he is fully God?
Assuming such, when (or perhaps I should say, at what point) do you
believe he became fully God???
Judy Taylor wrote:
Easy ... Jesus did not come to earth
as God. He took upon himself the form of a servant (Phil 2:6). He first
layed
aside the "glory" he had with the
Father. Truth is truth. No man can look at God's face and live.... You
saw
what happened to Uzzah when he tried
to steady the ark didn't you? or did you? judyt
Common sence must be
used here.If God had said" Moses met him face to face" and left it
there then you would have support for your Hypotisis but God didn't
leave it there-He explained -no man can see his face and live. No
problem with that here
DAVEH: To me it leads to a major problem for many Christians. I can
only assume that you believe many people saw Jesus' face. Yet it seems
a contradiction if you believe Jesus was fully God, and yet people
could see him and live. How do you explain that paradox, Dean?
