Note: I voted with about 3,500 other early voters at my polling place yesterday. In person, first day voting.the effort cost me about an hour all told. Please accept my loving opinion; if driving ten minutes, standing in a long line of fellow voters and showing a picture ID is your idea of voter suppression, you are too lazy to have a voice.
GO VOTE TOAY. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST DAY AND RISK RUNNING INTO A BIND. GO VOTE TODAY,
Now, to our subject.
Yesterday we spent some time on the I Am statements of the Christ in John, Chapter Six. In that one chapter Jesus announces He is the Bread of Life not less than four times. Jesus really wants us to know He is the great provider of our inner needs.
In reading over the post today I realized I may need to spend a day on the essential nature of the Logos. Remember, John’s Gospel starts in eternity, with the Logos (Word) with God as God as the Agent of Creation. Post-Christian evangelical atheists scoff at the idea of a Trinitarian God and, not less, at a personally created order. I think they miss the geometric relationship of the Trinity, one Person to the Other and then the algebraic model of reality in missing the Creation.
By geometric (in relation to the Trinity, God manifesting one unity in three forms), I mean the visibility of form. In eternity the Triune God is in a horizontal relationship, One Person to the Other. The beauty (aesthetics) of form in equality and proportion in Creation present in Creation’s unity,m conformity and even in its irregular presentations (the one moon of Earth orbits the Earth in line with Earth’s orbit of the sun, whereas all other moons in our solar system have an orbit both peculiar and particular to their gravitational body) gives evidence of a Precise Prime Mover. God, the Precise Prime Mover is in perfect unity, of a horizontal nature, One to the Other.
Therefore, put more simply, the unity, conformity and even the occasional, persistent irregularity of Creation argues for a Personal Creator. Then, Human rebellion interrupts Human History, at least as God provides. The “Tree of Life” episode is sometimes interpreted as God as the Villain,” in that God wants to hold Humans back from the divine knowledge they, we need to advance our race (as though God the Creator does not intend our greater good).
Since then, as we would see, our form “is out of whack.” Pure form has not actually predominated since early on with the human race, so we require other forms of “the Math” to explain our relationships to each other. It is God alone who remains static in form even since Humans moved away from Him. However, in order to display the intention of God to redeem and restore fallen Humanity to Godself, God reorders the relationship of the Trinity from horizontal to vertical, making Godself appear in dominant and subordinate relationship as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, with separate stations and actions.
Let me illustrate it this way. The night before Jesus died, He prayed to the Father, “Let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not my will but yours be done.” If, as we believe, Jesus is Eternal God Himself, to whom does He pray at this point? Is He talking to Himself?
To make this argument is to misunderstand the real sacrifice of the Christ. For fallen Humanity, Jesus surrenders the independent exercise of His divinity, emptying Himself, limiting Himself, obedient even to the point of death on the Cross. In so doing, Jesus displays this truth; that life and death (remember that Tree?) is never the province of Man, but always the domain of God.
The Logos Principle, for Christians, is inclusive of but beyond Creation as form. There is a reason we take Geometry (Plato) before Algebra (Neo_Platonism). The Logos is God’s personals demonstration of the relationship between matter and form.
Remember what we say. If we have Jesus we have what we need. If we do not have Jesus it does not much matter what we possess, or what possesses us.