who is lucifer?, page-219

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    bowral,

    Here I am not going to argue whether Jesus is God or not. I am just questioning the writer's understanding of impersonal human nature.

    "DESTRUCTION OF MONOTHEISM
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    An alternative Trinitarian understanding has been to say that the human part of Jesus is impersonal human nature. Yet this reasoning flies in the face of the Scriptural record about the very human Jesus who wept, got hungry, needed rest and finally suffered excruciating pain before dying. This hardly sounds like impersonal human nature."

    What is impersonal human nature? I think it is the ability that is common among all sentient beings to feel sensations such as sadness, hungry, tired, and pain. Those sensations are also triggered in the same way, and thus impersonal or universal among sentient beings. So to me the fact that Jesus wept, got hungry, tired and suffered excruciating pain doesn't disprove the claim of his impersonal human nature.

    Furthermore, impersonal means nothing personal - not taking it personally. And Jesus showed that he didn't take the treatment given to him personally when he said: "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." (In contrast, rightly or wrongly, I took it personally and got offended when Sarcophagus threw that quotation at me some time ago.)
 
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