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You're insulting God if you praise Him for unstudied, unaccomplished, un-suffered, lazy-sloth skills. His healing merits praise for two reasons:
"The beginning" refers to the beginning/creation of our universe. The divine Word refers to the sum total of the divine substance and thus, ultimately, to all three holy Persons. That holiness merits praise only if Yahweh labored/suffered to acquire it.
Yes you do. You've read my posts and seem frustrated for lack of ample refutation.
Jesus, Yahweh - the Three Persons have always been one God.
First of all, Direct Revelation is authoritative. Whenever the Inward Witness of the Holy Spirit convicted/convinced someone that God deserves praise, that injunction was binding even if they didn't comprehend why. The truth is, however, is that most biblical saints were advanced of us - they were not steeped in Plato's Greek philosophy like we are, hence they KNEW that God had labored/suffered to acquire His knowledge and skills.
As a matter of fact, my metaphysics is the only one to date that makes sense of the Incarnation. Nothing else offered to date - especially the Hypostatic Union -provides a humanly comprehensible explanation of how God became man.
No, the incarnate Jesus didn't heal anyone. On earth, He had to avail of the Father's knowledge and power via availing of the Third Person. Just like a modern healer would do today.
Moot point. Direct Revelation is authoritative. If it convicted/convinced the conscience to praise Jesus, such was their obligation.
Moot point. Doesn't matter how you read it. After all, nobody I know, other than God, is understood to be three Persons. It is a paradox inevitably leading to some paradoxical statements.
Human beings are supposed to praise each other for their accomplishments. Humans do acquire merit. Any prophet worth his salt had to labor/suffer his way into a degree of favor with God licensing him to perform miracles. I don't see that you're really proving much of anything significant here.
That's not even an explicit example of praise.
So the cross merits the same amount of praise both with, and without, labor/suffering? You don't seriously believe that. Someday, God's going to evaluate your work on this earth. By what measure? The IQ you were born with? Your pretty blue eyes and blond hair? No. He will evaluate you based on the definition of merit that I gave you. In fact, almost every sermon in the last 2,000 years revolves around that definition, and rightly so.
I'll answer with a question. Did it involve suffering? Suppose you suffered nothing because you were fully convinced I'd pay you back the next day. In that case there would be little merit - but there would still be SOME merit, because we always suffer the agony of temptation. Meaning, the devil was tempting you to be a cruel person who refuses to lend me the money. You had to suffer to endure and overcome that temptation.
Incoherent assertion because none of us can comprehend atemporal consciousness. Again, consciousness is an ongoing stream of impressions more or less distinct('loud and clear'). Desistence of them is unconsciousness and/or death. The Three persons are a fellowship (they communicate/converse) which can ONLY be conceived as consecutive communications and thus as temporal. Also note that if God exists in my future - then my future already exists - which means I too exist in my future, thereby making me atemporal like God is.
What doesn't make sense is your assumption of an atemporality contradictory to the only possible definition of merit.
Um.er..Scripture teaches that God worked/labored and rested. It was YOUR decision to insinuate that Moses was lying when he claimed that God engaged in work/labor/suffering, followed by engaging in real rest.
God says His ways are higher than ours - as high as the heavens above the earth. So let's take a look at YOUR view of God. He evaluates men based on real merit (I'm not really talking about salvation here). Yet He is a lazy sloth who did no labor/suffering to become holy while demanding the highest praise for it.
