Still mulling on all of this — where does temptation and evil come from? (Sunday Forum)

by Oh Yet We Trust, Brisbane, Friday, February 19, 2010, 11:57 (1187 days ago) @ Peter Dresser

Peter, I really like what you write here but I am so bloody confused - and to make matters worse I think I have reached a point I often do when dealing with so much life crap that my head just won't take things further - I just can't seem to break through.

I just want to know more about all the divinity/humanity of Jesus as it is distressing me on two levels - one, that it is having a go at very needed central beliefs which I hold sacred but on another level, that I am just not understanding properly what you and others are saying about the divinity of Jesus.

So I went to this spot:

Statement re God is Big. Real Big

November 8, 2008 at 10:05 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

and now I'm even more confused but relieved at the same time because what you say here also makes sense. I don't know if you've read my rantings lately about all this but if you have then you would see what I am dealing with. It was all triggered by Peter Kennedy's reported comments in a news paper and like the way your 'views' were 'reported in a news paper' I am just wondering if we are getting the whole picture of what you and he meant.

Any way, the whole thing is very big for me: For example, I wrote the following to TonyR just a hour or so ago:

But how can I trust in a Jesus who may not have existed or was not divine. I will not give my soul to such as this - it makes no sense - a possible man who lived in a culture and time so foreign to ours.

http://www.catholica.com.au/forum/index.php?id=41616

Peter, I am not looking for you to give me the answers, no one can do that, but rather to help me understand a bit more. If it's too big a thing, it's OK: I realise that I am asking a lot and that perhaps I should just read your book. The 'avatar' reference is also very interesting.

I just want to add that what you have said here and what Peter R has also written recently about Jesus and the connection of Jesus' existence to the out-pouring of the Holy Spirit sheds a new and very interesting light on the whole topic for me, one I would like to pursue in the context of my divinity of Christ question. But my head is again reaching saturation-to-the-point-of-another-headache so I'd better give it a rest for a while.

Thank you anyway for the contribution above and elsewhere.

Stephen

Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill