I have already talked about Jesus being a Jew, so I thought I might discuss something we talked about in my Bonhoeffer class today. We got onto the topic of whether or not Jesus would be necessary if God's original plan of the covenant to bring humanity back into unity with God worked. In other words, did God have full intentions of having the Covenant work and therefore had to change God's mind and come up with a new plan for Jesus when it failed? If yes, then what was the purpose of Jesus in the Trinity if his path was uncertain?
The class was pretty divided on it, and I am not explaining the situation very well, either, but the point is that I think we tend to get too caught up in the idea of Jesus based on the 33 years he spent as a human. And then we completely disregard Jesus as Logos: the Word, and the Truth, of God. Jesus is the Truth that was embodied on Earth for 33 years. Only 33 years out of an eternal existence with God and the Holy Spirit, but those 33 years have completely altered the history of humanity. Wether God already had that completely planned out or not, we must not forget that Jesus had a purpose as the Truth of God spoken throughout history and into the future long before he became a famous baby wrapped in swaddling clothes.
That's quiet interesting. I wish I hadn't have been sick and missed that day in class so that I could fully know what you're talking about. But the only thing I can think of to answer that is maybe God didn't have it planned out like that in the first place. His first plan failed so that's why He sent down His son. And because of that, I would think that Jesus already existed as a part of the Trinity. Plus if Jesus is God then yeah. I picture it as God seeing how His plan didn't work so as an alternative, He went down there Himself to try and fix things.
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