Conception of Baby Jesus in the womb of Mary

[Tambora]

Agreed ... and the properties that we observe of material in nature only perform as we observe (call it science) due to God causing the material to consistently perform in the way it does.
John 1:3 All things came into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being... Romans 11:36 For from Him [all things originate] and through Him [all things live and exist] and to Him are all things [directed]. To Him be glory and honor forever! Amen. .... and I suggest that God causes the things that come into being to work continually as they do by His constant will and if God were to somehow not exist then: Job 34:14 If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; 15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

I like the analogy that God made Himself a suit (Jesus) and wears the suit and the suit has human properties that occasionally become supernatural like walking of water due to the suit's owner ... and this suit is a minor adornment of God who has many other things going on like being omnipresent.
... the smart guys like @Carbon and @makesends use fancy theological words like the 'hypostatic union"... I just call it God wearing a "suit".

I would much rather hear an analogy rather than having to learn a whole new dictionary of theological terms men come up with, most of which are lacking in details anyway.

Boiled down to the basics:
The death of Christ (who is God) had to happen in order to defeat death by the resurrection and save mankind from the grave (death).
God had to become man in order to be able to die and be resurrected.
Not a problem for God.
And if one wants to go a little deeper into the philosophy of it all, we can do that too.
We like to talk about God being all knowing, but how can God be all knowing if He does not know what it feels like to experience death.
That would mean that mankind knows of something that God does not know.
With the incarnation and the death of Christ (who is God), that's no longer an issue.

 

[Mr GLee]

I would much rather hear an analogy rather than having to learn a whole new dictionary of theological terms men come up with, most of which are lacking in details anyway.

Boiled down to the basics:
The death of Christ (who is God) had to happen in order to defeat death by the resurrection and save mankind from the grave (death).
God had to become man in order to be able to die and be resurrected.
Not a problem for God.
And if one wants to go a little deeper into the philosophy of it all, we can do that too.
We like to talk about God being all knowing, but how can God be all knowing if He does not know what it feels like to experience death.
That would mean that mankind knows of something that God does not know.
With the incarnation and the death of Christ (who is God), that's no longer an issue.

I would offer.



The Holy Spirit worked pouring His Spirit life on the dying flesh of the Son on man in jeapordy of His own Holy Spirit life.

No dead sacrifice.

The Son of man Jesus demonstrated the powerful work of the His Father.

God is not a man. That's a wile of the evil one to believe God is a dying Jewish man as King of kings

 

[fastfredy0]

The death of Christ (who is God) had to happen in order to defeat death by the resurrection and save mankind from the grave (death).

...other thoughts:
I would contemplate that anything that happens had to happen because God planned it.
God is never an effect of an external cause; He is the first cause. Whatever happens is determined by God's essence and by definition all that happens is the best way it could happen as God determined it.

(Using Sculpture as an example of terminology and language of Aristotle’s distinctions of causality)
Efficient Cause the main cause is the sculptor
Material Cause the substance that is changed or made I.E. make the sculpture
Formal Cause is the idea or blueprint that is used by the efficient cause using the material
Final Cause is the purpose
Instrumental Cause are the instruments used to change the material (chisel)
Meritorious Cause what merited the change to the substance
Calvin: The efficient cause of our salvation is placed in the love of God the Father; the material cause in the obedience of the Son; the instrumental cause in the illumination of the Spirit, that is, in faith; and the final cause in the praise of the divine goodness.

 

[Tambora]

...other thoughts:
I would contemplate that anything that happens had to happen because God planned it.
God is never an effect of an external cause; He is the first cause. Whatever happens is determined by God's essence and by definition all that happens is the best way it could happen as God determined it.

Even better thoughts:
It doesn't matter what move God's creation makes, because God has the wisdom to bring order out of any chaos His creation causes.

 

[Mr GLee]

...other thoughts:
I would contemplate that anything that happens had to happen because God planned it.
God is never an effect of an external cause; He is the first cause. Whatever happens is determined by God's essence and by definition all that happens is the best way it could happen as God determined it.

Amen the law of faith the unseen things of Christ . . . . the justifier which apposes the letter of the law .The just law death.

Christ who is of one mind contemplated. The word meaning . . . "to mark out a space for observation". . "Let there be" he worked out his thought as the evidence seen "It was God alone good"

I think you could say two laws working togethter as one new perfect law.

Romans 3:26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus

.Isaiah 53:5King James Version5 But he was wounded for our transgressions,(the letter death) he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. (justified )

Both making one perfect

Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.