In Skan and ITL's posts they are asking whether these things are logical in an attempt to imply that you can't apply logic to God.
That's the point of this thread- to show how poorly educated so many members of bb are concerning logic and how uncommitted they are to its authority over their theologies.
I could go on and on.
But I think I made my point.
Well....that can be true if Jesus' incarnation was only humanity with humanity. However, Jesus' incarnation (the hypostatic union) is the union of a human body (with all its functions) with the divine essence (with its functions.) Ontologically this is a hugely significant union.
I agree it isn't, inherently, contradictory. However, we need to be mindful that the union isn't like the flesh combined with soul. This is entirely different, the flesh (sarx) fused with the divine (logos.) Massively different.
But it does not violate the law of noncontradiction in the same way that the soul and flesh of man co-existing do not violate that law.
That is why my anecdote is applicable and did not require correction- unless the goal is perhaps an effort to "humble me" since you perceive I am trying to do that to others?
I "think" being a mathematician, that perhaps we might be confusing logic and absolute truth.
Logic, appears to be an invention of man....a linguistic an symbolic exercise in semantics.
Although I would agree that God is not illogical, I would hesitate to make the claim that logic is some necessary attribute of God such as the "omnis".
In our human experience logic does at times lead to paradoxes a google search will reveal some of the paradoxes that can be obtained even with logical logic.
Achilles and the Tortoise
The Paradox of the heap
The Liar Paradox (which perhaps the apostle Paul addressed)
The Problem of the Specious Present
You cannot say that having a fleshly body and having an everlasting spirit is not a contradiction unless in fact, you have an everlasting spirit.
How about you list the divine laws of logic and then I'll take a shot at explaining how they are different from human's. Because I don't know what the divine rules of logic are.
Your premise is flawed.
God became a man IN ADDITION to being God- not in contradistinction to being God.
While God he became man and while a man he was still God.
This is perfectly logical.
A tiger kills his first man.
He is now a maneater.
He is still as much tiger as he ever was- he simply, while remaining a tiger, IN ADDITION to being a tiger also became a man-eater.
Why do I have to have one to say it is not a contradiction.
I say a man can have both silver and gold in his safe at the same time.
I don't have to have them to say he does.
No, no.
You are the one who said that there are these mysterious "human laws of logic" in contradistinction from the divine laws of logic.
I have never heard of these human laws.
I would like to know what they are and how they differ from the divine ones.
There is nothing about God inspiring men to write in their own style exactly what he wants to communicate that in any way violates any fundamental law of logic, for example.
What we have to e careful about doing is saying "I don't understand something therefore it is not logical."
I don't understand brain surgery but the things about it that I do know do not themselves violate logic.
Might as well say anything then--My pinky fingernail is larger than my dorsal fin. There is no contradiction.
Then I can say I have a dorsal fin.
You are the one that asserted that God created logic. You are the one starting multiple threads bemoaning the idea that people are not using God's logic to formulate their theology. Go on then--list for us God's laws of logic. I am lacking education on logic, that is the problem. So educate me.