Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 116
116 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction are not persons, and similarly phases do not create separate enti- ties. Any human being can pass through a multitude of varying moods and aspects, without splitting into two or three or many persons. Therefore, if God decided to die for the sake of the sinful humanity, it would have to be God Himself and not His aspects who would do so. Hence, regarding the case in point, that aspect of God which played a vital role in the Divine sacrifice for the sake of sinful humanity can only be understood to be a mere display of one of his attributes. So, if the mercy of God is alone to be treated as a ‘person’ and that person is given the name of Jesus Christas , then that something which died was the ‘mercy’ of God. What a strange contradiction it is that the mercy of God, having taken pity on sinful humanity, commits suicide. It implies that for three days and nights there was no mercy left in God. Remember that, in this scenario, Jesus as is not being treated as a separate independent person, but only as a characteristic or an aspect of God in which he becomes a sort of mercy personified. That person, however, remains to be the one single indivisible entity of God. So if anything died during this process, it would have to be either the person God or the attribute of His Mercy, which played the most vital role in this episode. Hence there is no option but to believe in either the death of the Mercy of God, or the death of Merciful God Himself. Many complications would arise out of the claim that aspects of a single person could be wiped out of existence, whether tempo- rarily or permanently. This scenario can only be understood in relation to its application to human experience. A man can lose