A Positively Poetic Priest

1 plus 1 equals 1. Theologians don't usually have good reputations as mathematicians. Theologians tend to follow the rules of logic only so far as it helps them out and then when things become a little messy, say in the case of trying to figure out how Jesus can be both fully human and fully divine at the same time, they ignore logic altogether and theologically add 1 and 1 and get 1. It is in such cases, that the rest of us get lost and wonder at the sanity of theologians. However, there is a real tension throughout the Gospel stories when it comes to Jesus. Not only is he supposed to be the long awaited Messiah and he doesn't do what anyone thought he would do... but he is also human AND divine,  and we don't really know how that works. Over the centuries, different groups have had different ideas about how that works, some have put more emphasis on the idea that Jesus is human  while other groups have emphasized Jesus'...

In mathematics there are functions everything has a function despite not being as you might wish everything has a function the sun itself has its function changing hydrogen to helium providing light and heat for us to use but there are many tunnels, with many lights and each light can only illuminate that which you allow yourself to see however, the critical point is not the light nor the seeing, nor the feeling but the entire function for without the sun, there would be no life. Life, life they say is more than the sum of its parts. But life is not a sum, nor a series it is a continuous ongoing experience a function of useless carbon Our lives are made up of the critical points where we choose to really live we may not see them as they fly we may not even ever guess as to the function defining our lives But everyone has a light a light with which to see the past and fight the dark the dark of empty loneliness of ...