From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@kohath.wanadoo.co.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 14 2005 - 11:38:23 GMT
Hi DMB,
A quickie.
> dmb says:
> You've misread the Northrop quote. He doesn't claim that the West denies
> the
> incarnation. He says the very opposite. He's saying that the concept of
> God
> as "an unseen God the Father" is what produces the need for the
> incarnation
> as a link between two distinct entities, between God and man. In the East
> God is not otherworldly and is not separate from us. Northrup says this
> difference "explains why the Far Eastern religions do not need a religious
> prophet if the divine is to be revealed to man, and why the Western
> religions must have one." See he's not claiming that the West is denying
> the
> incarnation, he's saying the West MUST have it. Maybe that correction will
> make him seem like less of an asshole. In fact, your description of the
> trinity here only supports the logic of what he's said.
If I've misinterpreted him then I owe him an apology. But the logic of what
he is saying seems to be that Jesus is a prophet (in the way that, say,
Moses, Isaiah and Mohammed were prophets). Which is _not_ the same as the
incarnation. But I'll wait for Ant's comments to convict me of being an
asshole myself ;-)
Sam
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