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interesting idea. like the 2 natures you mentioned before. i recall reading about the church debating this idea and remains divided on the subject. the irony of the all being two 🙃🙂

freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg 1y ago

No, not "the all," just all. Meaning that we cannot speak about "being in general" because there are two distinct *kinds* of being: Creator (infinite, eternal, unchangeable, self-existent, etc) and his creation (finite, temporal, changeable, dependent). God is not like us only "more so," we're not on the same scale at all. What makes the creature differ from his creator is not merely a matter of *degree*.

Look at what Aquinas says about univocal, equivocal, and analogical knowledge. That gets at it a bit too.

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MKD Podcast 1y ago

i reject that part because it appears to be a cognitive dissonance.

we are made in the likeness of god, possessed of his spirit. surely this describes a degree of difference between god (creator) and man (creation) not 2 different things.

like hot and cold they are both temperature just on different sides of the one measure.

GODGIFT. 1y ago

Hmm

MKD

You actually make sense

MKD Podcast 1y ago

do i normally sound off my rocker 😅😅😅

MKD Podcast 1y ago

if there is no man, there is no god and vice versa. if you dont have hot you dont have cold and vice versa..

freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg 1y ago

God does not depend on us for his existence.

MKD Podcast 1y ago

clearly god needs a body/vehicle to exist. the eternal is formless and void and doesnt exist by strict definition.

freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg 1y ago

Clearly we're using different definitions of "exist" - God *is* from all eternity. He didnt need to take on flesh to appear in history, however. Think of the many epiphanies in Scripture. Restricting existence to "in time and space" is rather limiting and rule out God.

I think some of your questjons might be answered by what we call the communicable attributes of God (how are we like him?) and thr incommunicable attributes of God (how are we not like him?)

https://youtu.be/bcbL6J7vzbQ?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/QF5ibvv_VQA?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/F7gUpl5hUSY?feature=shared

freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg 1y ago

Distinction means we are not him and he is not us--but that doesn't preclude his ability to speak to us, our ability to commune with gim. We were make "like" him but not "of the same substance" as him.