My 2nd counselor (Courtney McAlister, probably a distant relative) is an attorney and gave a masterful discourse on why others should feel comfortable calling us Christians. One of the great moments is quoted below. I really love this guy.
"Misguided attempts to label our view of the Godhead as non-Christian remind me of a joke that actually originated in a self-deprecating way in Trinitarian churches. In a slight revision to a well known scriptural exchange between Jesus and His Apostles, Jesus asked, “Whom do men say that I the Son of Man am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, “Thou art the Logos, existing in the Father as His rationality and then, by an act of His will, being generated, in consideration of the various functions by which God is related to his creation, but only on the fact that Scripture speaks of a Father, and a Son, and a Holy Spirit, each member of the Trinity being coequal with every other member, and each acting inseparably with and interpenetrating every other member, with only a subordination within God, but causing no division which would make the substance no longer simple.”
And Jesus answered and said, "Huh?"
2 comments:
That is a great joke.
Most excellent!
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