Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 120
120 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction phases simultaneously. That quantity of water would be split into three states, but the size of each would certainly be smaller than the totality of the substance and no one can declare it to be ‘One in Three’ and ‘Three in One’. Similarly, the incarnation of Christ as in the human form of Jesus as , while keeping both the bondages between Jesus as the man and God the Father intact, is inconceivable. All human beings are made up of the same elements, but their conformity and similarity to each other does not turn them into one single person. It is their characteristics, individualities and separateness from one another, which divides them into a multi- tude of entities, although they are intrinsically made from the same substance. One cannot, however, call them ‘one in five billion’ and ‘five billion in one’, despite their all sharing the humanity factor. Let us now examine the same question from another angle. If, for any specific period of time, Jesus as was separate and distinguish- able from God the Father on the one hand, and the Holy Ghost on the other, in which areas did that distinct separate existence of Christ as lie? Remember that one has to conceive of Christ as as being so totally distinct and disengaged from the Father and the Holy Ghost that his sacrifice for his fellow human brothers, or shall we say partial human brothers, must be thought of as entirely his own personal experience, different from that of the Father or the Holy Ghost This would evidently result in our considering Christ as alone transferring his mind or his thought processes to the physical body of Jesus as. Also then he could be understood as having undergone an experience, which was not shared by the