Thursday, February 5, 2009

Beautiful Tensions Part 2

So I wrote an entry a while back entitled "Beautiful Tensions." It was about the fact that we don't have all the answers about God, but we know some things. I tried to deal with suffering a little bit, since it seems to be that God is good, yet people suffer. I concluded that this is difficult for me emotionally, but the difficult of trying to hold those things in tension is what makes God beautiful. If God made sense would we be able to legitimately believe?
In the past week I seem to have come across another beautiful tension. In my theology class we are addressing Christology and we are trying to deal with what it means for Jesus to be fully human and fully divine. The incarnation (Jesus, who is God coming to earth in human form) is a difficult thing to deal with. It doesn't make a lot of sense. There are some theories that try to explain it, but as Charles Lee like to say, "At the end of the day..." they just don't work. Jesus doesn't make sense. Jesus, the Christ, is both fully human and fully divine. He is God, yet he is also human. Honestly I don't feel like that is a good enough explanation. It is illogical. It is unreasonable. It is irrational. It cannot be explained. And that's what make it true. I'm at Bible college trying to find answers. I want to be sure about what I believe, especially if I'm going to presume to be able to teach this stuff to others. But in this situation I have found two truths, and I don't know how to make them make sense. Jesus is human and Jesus is God. All I can do is hold these two truths in a delicate tension and worship God for how beautiful he is.

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