OK, ( Socrates also spoke of a God of Love), so if LOVE is the father of Jesus, is love equally your or my or anyone else's father, according to Christian belief?
Im guessing that when you love you mean is God equally divided between all us?
Yes
So..to sum this up;
God IS Love
God is equally divided between us all EXCEPT where it concerns Jesus, because Jesus is man and fully Love incarnate and no one else is...
hmmm..doesn't make any sense to me..
Nor me but i believe through faith that Jesus died on the cross for my sin so i can have eternal life. Its through faith that i am saved.
Faith is an interesting phenomenon. Personally, I choose to take a good look at ALL my beliefs, including my beliefs about faith.
I have faith that God is Love....I also have faith that Love is non discriminatory....that a smile is no more or less relevant or valuable depending on it's source....
'Sin' is nothing other than a perceived lack of love, in which case, the remedy would be to allow healing of misperception. Perhaps Jesus didn't die...as death itself, may be a misperception, albeit one that most humans choose to share....the idea of death is like a security blanket.....as long as people believe death will do anything conclusive they needn't really take responsibility, cause death can do that for them.
Original innocence is a much more relevent premise for me to accept than original sin. I don't think Jesus, being Love's son, or anyone else being Love's offspring, would desire that sacrifice of life become the inspiration for loving.. the point in which sacrifice is for Love, becomes the point that sacrifice is no longer sacrificial.
I will offer you a somewhat Christian parable;
There was a Sunday school class of 1st and 2nd graders and their teacher distributed empty plastic Leggs eggs, ( you are familiar with them, no? a brand of American pantyhose is packaged in ostrich sized white plastic eggs that twist open.....) and told the children to return the following Sunday with their eggs filled with something they believe symbolizes life....
the following Sunday the teacher called on the children; one child had put a butterfly inside-" A butterfly symbolizes life because it is colourful and developed through metamorphisis...."(clever kid, eh?)
Another kid had put a piece of tree branch inside; "It represents the tree of life." One by one the calling on the children by the teacher continued, and the children had all filled their eggs with symbols of life and had given brief explanations of how those symbols represented life- a rock, an illustration of a family, a little book etc. Finally the teacher called upon Johnny. Johnny was a kid that struggled quite a bit as he was bald from the chemo and radiation treatments that he received from medical attempts to cure his brain tumor. His companions, classmates, peers, often had difficulty understanding Johnny, as he also spoke with a speech impediment caused by the growing tumor.
Johnny's egg was empty. The other children laughed, they that Johnny was so stupid that he'd forgotten to do his homework assignment. The teacher, patiently, asked Johnny how nothing represented life, " Or is it air Johnny? Did you fill the egg with air- as air can represent life because we all need to breath to live?"
" No," said Johnny, " It's empty because the tomb ( Jesus' tomb) was empty- that's what represents life."
Johnny past away not shortly thereafter- and his classmates attended his funeral- all carrying emptied eggs.