I think it isn't reasonably to say that Joseph was God's neighbor to a little house on the prairie. God enables everything to exist and if he wants to enable Mary to give birth to The Son, Joseph still isn't promoted uptown to be God the Father's neighbor. Adam and Eve were kicked out of Eden. They were the only humans created that ever lived in it. Wittgenstein's Indeterminacy of Translation paradigm applied to material written about 3500 years before present, describing events and history from thousands of years earlier presumably, are definitely subject to that linguistic phenomena. I believe the world was populated when Adam and Eve were created, yet those humans weren't really regarded as spirited. Remember that human is a human word. It may be that spirit is what is important to God- as God is Spirit. Adam and Eve showed they knew the difference between good and evil and were cast into the world with all of its thermodynamic troubles to live in the land of the lost. If humanity evolved, it was only in fairly recent geological history that they became like modern humans with advanced capacity for thought. Animals don't know the difference between good and evil. Original sin is something like living like animals in pure thermodynamic relations even with consciousness. None of that is acceptable for the divine economy of God. Salvation through Jesus Christ is the only way out of the spiritually stillborn condition of death that lasts forever unless reborn in the Spirit of God. https://suno.com/s/U4xoDycQ0B1UdG89 https://suno.com/s/LtkZuRRsDmBE2wEC Wrecked Sky at Mourning
God is not a peer of mankind- That is a serious misunderstanding. It may also be wrong to regard God as being in a place in the same way a human being is in a place and meshed into a particular space-time locale. God is a Spirit yet a real person. No one knows His area- it could be greater than a Universe or all possible Universes. Humanity doesn't even know why quantum super-position works faster than light yet. He is the omnipotent potter free to make or brake pots for whatever purpose he chooses. A programmer for instance, is not an adulterer because he has a computer algorithm generate a subroutine that becomes a new algorithm in-itself. A creator of Universes is not an adulterer because he wills one of his creation to become pregnant without human intercourse. Philosophers would say yours is a categorical error. The Lord Jesus could not be fathered by a human being, as He too is God. His Father is of the Trinity.
https://suno.com/s/PHrIsPSjLKgM2x4R Disiderata of the Spiritually Dead
Jesus refers to God the Father. Catholics at least call Mary the mother of God. Don't ask me to explain how or why the Trinity has God the Father, God The Son and God the Holy Spirit- no one knows why so far as I know. Three Persons in One existing from eternity. God as the Son appearing on Earth transcends human procreation and incarnation criteria. Jesus was fully man and yet fully God. God chose to incarnate Jesus as a human so he qualified to bear the sins- to be the sacrifice of atonement for the sin of those that would be saved. No one else besides God had the ability to pay the debt of sin. In a way one may vaguely compare it to the U.S. public debt of 38 trillion dollars that it seems, no one besides God could pay- even with easy installment payments of $19.95 a month.
Sin obviously is the problem regarding human culpability. All sins are grievous in a sense. Just one sin requires that soteriological intervention by Christ. Thou shalt not kill is one of the ten commandments. So one need regard it as very important. People these days to tend to assign their own values to matters of sin and sometimes try to explain it away. Yet the entirety of creation of humanity and existence in a thermodynamic field is the problem. The Universe may be the incarceration facility for the wilful. To be saved and spiritually acceptable through the blood sacrifice of Christ required Christ to die plainly. Was that suicide that he allowed his body to be crucified? He did know that His spirit would not die and he would be resurrected or just transition from mortal death to eternal life immediately. Compare the Star Wars death of Obi Wan Kenobe (if you kill me I shall become much stronger). Pilate remained unsaved so far as I know. Paul was forgiven from his career persecuting Christians. Jesus was in a different category that humans. Being God Himself and without sin he was not responsible for others choosing to kill him. Medal of Honor winners are not suicides because they could have remained alive if they had not been so brave and allowed the enemy to kill them- that is, they could have been more cautious and remained in a foxhole, trench or whatever and let the brass figure it out.
People are saved through the grace of God and blood of Christ having no sins that haven't been covered by the sacrifice of the Lord. The spiritually dead have all of the original sin of the world and all of their very own creation that will convict them on the day of judgment. Sin you know, means to miss the mark- as when an archer cannot hit the target. Humans left to their own devices with an immortal spirit may find life without God after death a very cold and even monstrous experience. It is their concern. The Disciple Peter and Apostle Paul were each martyred and felt they were simply giving witness to Christ. Plainly Christians would not try to induce others to sin. Because of human nature that may occur anyway. In Nigeria for example Christians are sometimes slaughtered by Muslims, though they have not sought to be victims of homicide or kidnapping.
Some have issues with assigning responsibility to individuals for their own actions to a certain extent. If Cain kills Abel, Abel is not at fault even if he knew Cain to be a lunatic and did not excuse himself from accompanying Cain. Maybe comparing some of that sort of theological inquiry first to a comparison to legal criteria in a courtroom would help in understanding. Remember as well that Christians are saved through grace- not works. If God wants someone to be a martyr they will. Jesus said to Peter, because he foreknew what would happen to Peter (crucified and upside down at his own request to his executioners) John 21:18-19: "when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go," - Jesus was telling Peter that he would be taken forcibly and executed.
On the point about people not following the Lord and the gospel to the letter; you would need to know what the word of God in the Bible actually says; there is incredible wisdom in it and subtle points. Humanity is fallen and the way to salvation is a narrow gate Jesus said. Broad is the road that leads to destruction and most go that way. It is difficult to reply to rather polemic points when one must educate or edify at the same time, the polemicist. Good luck Appan. Life is not necessarily easy, so I hope you find the right path in time. Clement is said to have travelled with Paul for a while. He was the first formal head of the church at Rome following Paul's beheading. He wrote this... https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1010.htm
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