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Originally Posted by craig1120
You don’t realize what you’re saying. If Jesus didn’t BECOME God, then you and your loved ones have zero chance of ever entering into eternal life in the kingdom. As a fallen being, how are you expected to unify your story with the story of a perfect being who can never fall. Those two cannot reconcile together.
You can only unify with Christ’s story, and become perfect, if he unifies with your story, becoming imperfect. What is true of him (perfection), becomes true for you. What is true of you (imperfection), becomes true for him. This is the only way unification works.
There is truth in the idea that Jesus is always God (and always perfect), but that is the first chapter of the story. The story has to progress and is now doing so.
Christians can either evolve along with it by dying in their sin or be left behind by dying in their sin.
Look, why can't you just say "live your life like Christ"? You're adding all kinds of kooky language as well as gnostic ideas. We aren't "unifying our stories"...where did you get this silly language?
Of course there's truth in Christ always being God BECAUSE HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GOD. This isn't allegorical. He's perfect because He's God. He CANNOT not be perfect. Christ is the LOGOS. Truth isn't a concept. Truth is literally a PERSON...Christ. He created the universe and every one of us.
Jesus Christ is second person of a trinitarian Monarchical Godhead. Three distinct hypostasis sharing the same essence and will. The Father being the sole cause of the Son and Holy Spirit, but all equally coeternal and all EQUALLY God. That's the nuts and bolts of it. You seem to have a grasp on what it takes to achieve salvation but you gotta drop all the woo woo rhetoric. You're not going to convert anyone sounding like hippie shaman on ayahuasca.
And yes, I'm Orthodox.
