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To: xjcsa

GOD created himself again (in two beings) to be on the planet to understand the temptation from Satan! I respectfully disagree.


309 posted on 09/19/2007 9:25:53 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: eyedigress
GOD created himself again (in two beings) to be on the planet to understand the temptation from Satan! I respectfully disagree.

I said nothing of the sort; in fact I said just the opposite. Jesus was not in any sense "created" - he is eternal; he has always existed. He "became flesh", not (primarily) to "understand the temptation from Satan" (what an odd phrase), but to give his life for ours; to break the power of sin and death, and to usher in a New Covenant between God and man.

323 posted on 09/19/2007 9:33:03 PM PDT by xjcsa (Hillary Clinton is nothing more than Karl Marx with huge calves.)
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To: eyedigress

It may be a subtle correction, but the truth is that God did not “create” himself again. He was “begotten.” He remained one Being, present in three Persons (Father, Son, Holy Spirit). His reason for becoming Man wasn’t to understand temptation, but to take our punishment on the cross.

I don’t understand all this very fully, but this is orthodox.


325 posted on 09/19/2007 9:33:25 PM PDT by Theo (Global warming "scientists." Pro-evolution "scientists." They're both wrong.)
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To: eyedigress

And you find that......where in the Bible?


828 posted on 09/20/2007 3:00:29 PM PDT by zerosix (<Native Sunflower>)
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