Wrangler
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It is my thesis that the early Christian Church DID believe that "God came down from heaven, and from a Hebrew virgin assumed and clothed himself with flesh" (to quote the Apology of Aristides, circa 125 C.E.).
One of the things that strike me in reading the Bible several times now is how figurative the language is. Abraham having more descendants than grains of sand in the world and if all of Jesus works were written, the world could not contain them all are but 2 examples.
IMO, our dumbed down society is less capable of reading figurative language and demand it be taken as literally true. Some trinitarians claim YHWH in heaven is called the Father but when he comes to Earth in flesh, he is called the Son. This is specious. It is unprecedented language usage that a Being's name changes depending on their location.
In normal language usage, people say things like "Hitler killed 4M Jews" when the truth is he killed no one. The expression is about agency. Scripture is not void of agency but filled with it. Moses parted the Red Sea. Isaiah said "I am the first and last" (or is it alpha and omega?). God is with us or with a character in the Bible is expressed numerous times but only with Jesus is that demanded to mean, contrary to Scripture, God in the flesh.
And when I say contrary to Scripture, I mean to include going beyond the direct and explicit words of the Bible as Mark 7:13 warns.
And so you cancel the word of God in order to hand down your own tradition.
Mark 7:13 NLT
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