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Well, possibly, but it is still always the case that the benefit of knowing Christ is better than the detriment caused by sin.

It reminds me of my church's liturgy on Easter Vigil that is sung at candlelight every year, which proclaims, "O truly necessary sin of Adam, / destroyed completely by the Death of Christ! / O happy fault that earned so great, so glorious a Redeemer!"  It sounds a bit strange to frame it this way, but I think it is intended to underscore the extreme privilege humanity received to have God become Man.
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Or more sinful and vile.....
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Oh really?  But if you found out that Christ came here, to Earth, and other planets that were not so fortunate needed to be converted, wouldn't that make humanity even more special?
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It would be exciting at first.  Then it would hit me that humanity isn't as special as I thought it was.
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Christian Legacies Main Forum / Re: Theology of the Trinity
« Last post by Donald Baker on August 21, 2019, 06:15:58 AM »
I have to agree with this description.  It is a mystery that we are ill-equipped to understand as we are now.
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Christian Legacies Main Forum / Re: Theology of the Trinity
« Last post by Phidippides on August 20, 2019, 10:29:49 PM »
The difficulty of understanding the Trinity reminds me of the passage regarding St. Augustine from the Golden Legend:

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It was so that this glorious doctor made and compiled many volumes, as afore is said, among whom he made a book of the Trinity, in which he studied and mused sore in his mind, so far forth that on a time as he went by tbe sea-side in Africa, studying on theTrinity, he found by the sea-side a little child which had made a little pit in the sand, and in his hand a little spoon. And with the spoon he took out water of the large sea and poured it into the pit. And when S. Augustin beheld him he marvelled, and demanded him what he did. And he answered and said: I will lade out and bring all this water of the sea into this pit. What? said he, it is impossible, how may it be done, sith the sea is so great and large, and thy pit and spoon so little? Yes, forsooth, said he, I shall lightlier and sooner draw all the water of the sea and bring it into this pit than thou shalt bring the mystery of the Trinity and his divinity into thy little understanding as to the regard thereof; for the mystery of the Trinity is greater and larger to the comparison of thy wit and brain than is this great sea unto this little pit. And therewith the child vanished away.

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/goldenlegend/GoldenLegend-Volume5.asp#Augustine
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What would you think about it if it were a real arrival of aliens?
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Christian Legacies Main Forum / Re: Theology of the Trinity
« Last post by Donald Baker on August 19, 2019, 09:10:06 PM »
The Trinity still confuses theologians even today.  It is very difficult to pin down just exactly the role of the Holy Spirit is that differentiates it from Jesus and God the Father other than it is the Paraclete or Comforter.
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Christian Legacies Main Forum / Re: Theology of the Trinity
« Last post by skiguy on August 19, 2019, 07:21:35 PM »
I could be wrong, but I don't think it was.  The Holy Spirit wasn't really known to believers until Jesus made it known to them. 
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It would mess up a lot of folks and is one of the reasons Satan might try to fake an alien invasion himself.
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