GAQ?
Got a question?
This page is just for you, post your questions however random and I’ll try and give you an answer and/or blog about it.
The questions can be on any subject you like, they don’t have to be faith based, so get your thinking cap on and suggest some.
First Question from Hannah:
How can God be God and his own son too? – When she asked me I sat a little stunned for a while because I actually didn’t have an answer for this so I’m reading up and asking around and you can expect a post shortly.
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Okay, the Holy Trinity post helped (God and Jesus being two sides of the same coin) but I’m still confused about the relationship between these two. I tried to explain earlier but failed (now I’ve eaten breakfast I might be a bit more coherent);
It seems like Jesus was a peace offering that God sent to himself. People no longer had to be die for their sins (in the way that God punished them in the Old Testament) because God had knowingly sent Jesus to die for these sins instead.
Can you explain?
I think instead looking at it as God sending Jesus to himself you have to look at it slightly differently. Yes Jesus was sent into the world, he was essentially God in human form. He was given the capabilities of a human, the emotions of a human and essentially the free will choice that humans have. So Jesus wasn’t forced to die for God’s own self, he chose to die for us.
There’s a bit in the gospels when Jesus goes to the garden of Gethsemanie and pleads to God asking if there is any other way that he could remove the sins of the world, he is fearing what will happen but goes ahead and suffers on the cross anyway. Jesus didnt willingly suffer purely to satisfy God’s personal wim, he suffered because he had an insatiable love for us, so much so that he wanted us to be a part of his and his father’s life in heaven.
Thanks for that Claire is helped me understand a bit more, think a lot will become clearer when I progress to the New Testament
Jesus is a manifestation of God. the same way we are manifestations of his image. The only time God took himself away from his manifestation is at the later part of the crucifixion. the reason he could remove himself from his manifestation is because of the ‘use’ of Mary in order to create him.
Not a question but a suggestion for a blog topic – this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7978981.stm – the BNP are using Jesus on their posters, suffice to say Charity and I aren’t impressed, might have a mini-rant about it the next time I blog about Twitter (was mentioned by Reverend Peter, who if you like you’re tweets religious – and I figure you might – is worth adding http://twitter.com/frpeter).
Here’s a couple of blog suggestions, not sure if you still want them but not going to find any one else to discuss them with at the moment :/
http://is.gd/1A05L – is church a necessary part of Christianity? I’d go with yes because a shared experience helps to strengthen people’s faith, strengthens the community and hopefully good teaching cuts out some of the crazier ideas.
http://is.gd/1A0fv – Atheist summer camps. Sounds like a bad idea, as bad a Christian camps. I don’t get religion now so trying to push it on youngsters seems like a bad idea. It seems like we should teach facts that children can use to base their own beliefs on (obviously this depends on how you define “facts” and “beliefs” and I realise we’re both biased here).
Anyway, hope the job hunt is going well, life in Stoke is rather good at the moment.