What I was trying to overcome is the sterility of the ultra precise verbiage found in the creeds and that I feel also communicate error.
The Chalcedon Creed asserts that Jesus had both a God nature and a human nature with Jesus switching between the two modes. That is a pointless invention and just plain wrong. Jesus didn’t have two natures, He was just Himself.
The Nicean Creed says that Jesus and the Father were different persons but were both made out of the same “stuff”
In the interest of stating my post simply:
Jesus is the I AM of God within time. The Father is the Great I AM beyond time.
Still hard to understand I suppose, but a lot shorter.
I like how the explanation I’ve offered demolishes the Islamist’s argument that Christians are polytheist pagans. Also skeptics have sport ridiculing the notion that God provided a hapless whipping boy that He could vent His anger upon because God loved us SO much. That ridicule is answered well by the explanation above.
Regards...
I'm curious. Do you complain about the "sterility" of the ultraprecise verbiage in the doctor's office?
When he blathers on about peptic ulcers or gastroenteritis do you insist on going right back to "my tummy hurts"?