I don't know if it has a name because it is a non-material non-locality composed of spiritual energy. I call it Jesus because my humanity wants a label and the historical record of Jesus Christ seems solid enough to assume that he was a human incarnation for it.
Also, it seems significant that it is your humanity that desires a label (something tangible), and that it is Jesus - the one and only God who became human - who is the name that you most closely with your understanding of God. *This* precisely is, in fact, why Jesus came: to be for us a human face of God. “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father,” he said.
So what do you do with the historical record of Jesus’ life, his death, and particularly his resurrection? Again, serious question.
C.S. Lewis said that Jesus was either Lord, liar, or lunatic. Lord, if he was indeed who he claimed to be. Liar, if he claimed to be God and wasn’t; and who wants to follow a liar. Lunatic if he knew he was lying yet was willing to die the most torturous death that he did.
What do you do with the historical accounts of Jesus’ sayings, in which he was identified as creator of the universe (The Gospel of John, chapter 1)?
The God of the universe is a person, 3 persons, actually, but I’ll leave that aside for now. He has revealed Himself as Father(male, He, El Shadi who created the universe through His Son, the Word, who the Father sent into the world to save it and such men who by his own Sovereign grace would come to believe and accept that free gift of Grace, and God the Father confirmed that this was true in many ways, but ultimately by raising Him from the dead and then sending the 3rd person of the Trinity to spiritually inhabit believers, guiding them to the Truth.
Much more May be said, but there is no warrant for calling God the Father ‘it’ and to the extent that you do you are creating your own god , and that is blasphemy.
The God of the Bible was created by the men who made up the bible.
My creator made them like it made me.
Who is your creator, if I may ask? How did he make himself known to mankind? Sincerely asking.
I don't know if it has a name because it is a non-material non-locality composed of spiritual energy. I call it Jesus because my humanity wants a label and the historical record of Jesus Christ seems solid enough to assume that he was a human incarnation for it.
Also, it seems significant that it is your humanity that desires a label (something tangible), and that it is Jesus - the one and only God who became human - who is the name that you most closely with your understanding of God. *This* precisely is, in fact, why Jesus came: to be for us a human face of God. “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father,” he said.
I will be ignoring all future rude sermons.
So what do you do with the historical record of Jesus’ life, his death, and particularly his resurrection? Again, serious question.
C.S. Lewis said that Jesus was either Lord, liar, or lunatic. Lord, if he was indeed who he claimed to be. Liar, if he claimed to be God and wasn’t; and who wants to follow a liar. Lunatic if he knew he was lying yet was willing to die the most torturous death that he did.
What do you do with the historical accounts of Jesus’ sayings, in which he was identified as creator of the universe (The Gospel of John, chapter 1)?
I do the same thing with all well-documented historical records.
The bible is not a well-documented historical record since it has been transliterated and translated into mush.
The God of the universe is a person, 3 persons, actually, but I’ll leave that aside for now. He has revealed Himself as Father(male, He, El Shadi who created the universe through His Son, the Word, who the Father sent into the world to save it and such men who by his own Sovereign grace would come to believe and accept that free gift of Grace, and God the Father confirmed that this was true in many ways, but ultimately by raising Him from the dead and then sending the 3rd person of the Trinity to spiritually inhabit believers, guiding them to the Truth.
Much more May be said, but there is no warrant for calling God the Father ‘it’ and to the extent that you do you are creating your own god , and that is blasphemy.
Vonu- Read that aloud and see if it sounds as absurd as it reads.
Who is denying divinity now?