/lit/ - Literature

>>19258860
>Jesus the Messiah, Your word
Where did the idea that Jesus is the Word come from? What is the Word of God, in the context of Second Temple Judaism? What resources would you look at to see how the Jews in this period understood what the Word meant? If "By the Word of the Lord the heavens were established" (Zabur 33:6), what does it mean for Jesus to be the Word of the Lord? According to Islamic theology, can God have a partner in creation? If Jesus is God's Word, and it was the Word of God who created the world, does God have a partner in creation? If not, does that mean the Word is divine?
>May God save us from these Satanic traps.
"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others"

>>19038271
>for instance, if He was imbued with a stronger will, greater soberness, or more maturity, he could have resisted temptation
Surely we can agree that Adam needed to have the capacity to transgress against God at the very least, and I would argue that for this potentiality (of transgression to enable the act of freely desiring re-communion) to be actualized, the capacity needed to be a real possibility (as in, there was actually a possibility that Adam could have freely chosen to disobey). The idea that chaos infiltrates any ordered system in a long enough span, from within or outside, is a recurring motif in the scriptures.
>and learned to "make his way towards God" in a better way.
Adam already walked with God, but the purpose of the whole redemptive arc enabled by the possibility of transgression was to make humanity worthy to eat of the tree of eternal life, which is the body and blood of Jesus Christ. Essentially, the eternally overflowing outpouring of God's divine love led to Him choosing to enact a plan, creation - the goal of which was to create being(s) which could freely choose to enter into the boundless joy of the communion of love in the Holy Trinity - and that for this good to be actualized, humanity needed to be given the real possibility of falling in the first place, and that indeed this was all a part of divine providence. It is for this reason that some patristic writers say things along the lines of "the purpose of the entire universe is the incarnation".