Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 62
62 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction Surprisingly, the secret of Christ’s as and the Holy Ghost’s par- ticipation in the Creation remained a secret to Jesus as himself. We read not a single statement of Jesus Christ as in which he claims to be the ‘Word’. Therefore, neither Jesus as nor the Holy Ghost had any part to play in the shaping and making of Creation. Again it was God the Father alone, we are told, who fashioned man from dust with His own hands. I have never read anywhere in any Christian writings that the two hands belonged to Jesus as and the Holy Ghost Hence God created everything without the slightest help from, or participation of, Jesus as or the Holy Ghost Were they passive observers generally in agreement with what God was doing or did they actually participate? If the latter is more accept- able to Christian theologians then immediately the question arises whether each of them was individually capable of creating, without the help of the others, or were they only capable in their totality? And again, if all three were essentially needed to pool their functions together to create, then was their share equal, or did one have a larger share of the labour put into the process of creation? Were they three persons with different powers both in intensity and kind, or did they share their powers equally? One has to admit that whichever of the two options is taken, each of the components of Trinity becomes incompetent to create any- thing by itself. If the same argument is extended to other Divine functions, the same question will continue to plague the Christian theologians. At the end of the day Christians will have to admit that they do not believe in one simple entity of God, with three aspects and expressions of one single central power and majesty. But rather