"That God should have clothed Himself with our nature that should not seem strange or extravagant to minds that do not form too paltry an idea of reality." St. Gregory of Nyssa
In the same way that Light is both wave and particle; which when viewed only through the lens of Newtonian physics is paradoxical, if not impossible. However, when viewed through lens of Quantum physics it is a perfectly rational and necessary condition for the existence of Light in the universe.
"Christ revealed that true power is found not in taking, but in giving."
Funny how banks have perverted this power, gaining leverage over others by loaning (at interest). Money is potential, that is, power, and so it's good to have a lot of it. But through usury you accumulate anti-money, and the dialectic between anti-money and money generates even greater potential, and ever greater power.
I love the resistance to characterizing Christian doctrine as paradox, and for precisely the reasons you say. Kierkegaardian dialectic is proto-Nietzschean in its perspective, not Christian.
"That God should have clothed Himself with our nature that should not seem strange or extravagant to minds that do not form too paltry an idea of reality." St. Gregory of Nyssa
In the same way that Light is both wave and particle; which when viewed only through the lens of Newtonian physics is paradoxical, if not impossible. However, when viewed through lens of Quantum physics it is a perfectly rational and necessary condition for the existence of Light in the universe.
"Christ revealed that true power is found not in taking, but in giving."
Funny how banks have perverted this power, gaining leverage over others by loaning (at interest). Money is potential, that is, power, and so it's good to have a lot of it. But through usury you accumulate anti-money, and the dialectic between anti-money and money generates even greater potential, and ever greater power.
I love the resistance to characterizing Christian doctrine as paradox, and for precisely the reasons you say. Kierkegaardian dialectic is proto-Nietzschean in its perspective, not Christian.