Thursday, November 11, 2010
More Flannery
“To see Christ as God and man is probably no more difficult today than it has always been, even if today there seem to be more reasons to doubt. For you it is a matter of not being able to accept what you call a suspension of the laws of the flesh and the physical, but for my part I think that when I know what the laws of the flesh and the physical really are, then I will know what God is. We know them as we see them, not as God sees them. For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified…. The resurrection of Christ seems the high point of the law of nature.”
(Sept 6, 1955)
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On Vox Nova, there was a discussion of early embryo loss (infants who die before implantation or miscarry before viability) and how they might appear after the Resurrection of the Dead that raised many more questions than it answered.
http://vox-nova.com/2010/11/01/ficino-on-those-who-die-as-infants/
I am currently reading Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz, and have read a few other books about human consciousness (for example, How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer) that seem to present all kinds of difficulties for imagining what the consciousness of a person who is God and man would be like.
Could Jesus have been wrong about when the world would end? (It seems to me he was.) On the one hand, how can God incarnate be wrong? On the other hand, how could a human being possibly cope with fully knowing the future?
The self-understanding of Jesus is an interesting topic in historical Jesus research, and I don't think there is any consensus. But I don't know if anyone has actually speculated on the consciousness of Jesus or the mind of Jesus.