I guess I'll spill the beans right here. I'll summarize my metaphysics here. Links for further details:
God Is a Physical Being
Why God is Worthy of Our Praise
The Problem of Evil
- Post 850 showed my defense for acquired holiness. Please start there.
- In fact every act of free will is acquired knowledge of sorts. How so? As noted earlier, free will contradicts foreknowledge. Free choice involves a period of deliberation whose outcome isn't foreknown because the mind hasn't decided yet. Therefore God's knowledge must be acquired knowledge, if He has free choice.
Ok so when did this learning process begin, for God? Today would not have been reached yet, if the past were infinite. There must have been a first moment in time, therefore, as the inception of a finite past. I said that I reject all magical phenomena, including "spirit" (all reality is physical in my view) and including creation nihilo. I don't even believe in "time" - except as a convenient term for counting motions. All I believe in is matter in motion.
The Totality is my term for the sum total of matter, understood to be imperishable. What caused it's first motion? The only real force in existence is free will. For example if I punch you in the face, what propelled my hand? Muscular energy alone? If that were the primary impetus, you couldn't blame ME - you could only blame the laws of physics and physiology. Free will is thus the only self-propelling impetus in the Totality.
When one piece of the Totality launched that first motion - that first act of free will - that piece began to awaken to full sentience. And it awoke to become the being that we now know as Yahweh. During His early years, presumbly, He quickly realized that the Totality would eventaully become a place of eternal conflict and war if there was no Ruler to keep the peace. Thus He made the decision to become holy (i.e. exponentially advanced in knowledge, skill, love, and purity). He decided to become the quintessential Ruler and Judge, to insure the everlasting safety of us all (all matter in the Totality).
The PROBLEM is that this task of becoming holy was likely too daunting to undertake without some hope of eventual reward. Hence He had to promise Himself a bride as a reward for His work (a bride formed from leftover matter in the Totality). He literally felt He had no choice, as He was facing the prospect of perpetual solitary confinement. The Totality would be doomed to eternal conflict if loneliness caused Him to falter in His effort to become holy. And failure was NOT an option. Therefore He could not risk the loneliness. Note that, to date, this is the only valid solution proposed to the Problem of Evil. Unacceptably, traditional theodicy has God creating this world of (potential) suffering, not out of a perceived NEED for it, and therefore for the FUN of it. Which is evil behavior. After all, an infinitely self-sufficient God wouldn't need a world like this - such a being could not have any needs or unfulfilled wants, by definition - and therefore could not justify creating this kind of world.
What is the Trinity? All reality is physical. Physicality means multiplicity. After all, which brain cell in your head is the real you? ALL of it is you. You are multiple. (Earlier I already demonstrated multiplicity in my theory of Adam). In a similar way, the Trinity is a multiplicity, it is the three major subdivisions/Persons exhaustively constituting the Godhead:
(1) The Father is a human-shaped figure seated on a throne (see Dan 7:9-11). Literally we are fashioned in His shape/image.
(2) The Son is a human-shaped figure seated at His right hand.
(3) The Holy Breath/Wind is the remainder of Yahweh (misnomered in orthodoxy as The Holy Ghost/Spirit), for example He exudes from the Son's nostrils and figure as rivers of Fire (Ps 18), billows of Smoke (Ps 18), and Light from His face (compare Rev 1:16 with Rev 21:23).
God's power? Again, same as ours. Free will. Nothing magical. Nothing supernatural.
What makes His holiness irreversible? A 2-pronged strategy, see post 116 on this thread:
The Problem of Evil
Incarnation? A cinch. If I wanted to reduce your knowledge to that of a vegetable, all I have to do is find a way to damage/scramble your brains. The Father surgically extracted a small subsection of the Son's figure, basically one cell, and did several things to it. For example, He:
(1) Yanked it out of the divine "neural network". Think of Yahweh as one huge Brain continually receiving and processing information. If you yank a cell out of that brain, it has already lost most of its knowledge by virtue of separation from the flow of information.
(2) He surgically "scrambled" that cell (scrambled its brains) until it had COMPLETELY lost all its former knowledge.
(3) He mated it to a human embryo in Mary's womb. God's strength/power is largely a product of His enormous size (He is spread throughout the Totality). But this tiny lone cell was as weak as we are.
Christ's soul was thus the uncreated Son of God - no human soul was added to the Trinity.
What I've expressed here is a simple manipulation of matter. That's what I meant when I said that my whole theory of the Incarnation falls under the scope of John 1:14:
"The (physical) Word became flesh".
It's not complicated.
