Another Chap 6 Excerpt -- Immanuel

Excerpts so far from God with Ten Words:

• Mystery
• Love
• Power (excerpt 1)
• Power (excerpt 2)
• Knowledge (excerpt 1)
• Knowledge (excerpt 2)
• Presence (excerpt 1)
• Presence (excerpt 2)
• Immanuel (excerpt 1)

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Before I go any further, let me remind us of mystery. One of my points in this thought experiment is to remind us of how small our sense of things usually is. The universe is much bigger than earth, and God is much “bigger” than the universe. Perhaps, if we knew what God knew, this entire line of questioning would be revealed as hilarious, not because of how fanciful it is, but because it is not fanciful enough! I hope you are beginning to catch a glimpse of how small our understanding of things must surely be.

Nevertheless, if we persist through with this line of questions, we likely conclude both that Christ would have come to those planets that sinned and those planets that did not sin. It seems likely that the Word would have taken on the “flesh” of those thinking creatures too, both those that sinned and those that did not. The Logos may have done so before coming to earth as a human and perhaps even since...