The Golden Gate bridge is a good illustration of our Christian life is constructed and used. I've included some pictures of the Golden Gate bridge to illustrate a point.
These are different perspectives on the same object. Everyone recognizes them as pictures of the Golden Gate bridge. No one would say one of the pictures is 'wrong' or 'false'
You commented some time back that you were disappointed that all of the Bible commentators didn't agree, or that they didn't say the same thing the same way. I think Bible commentators are Golden Gate photographers, each one emphasises a different view of the subject at a point in time.
To some, the bridge is something to drive on. To some, the bridge is something to paint and repair. To some, it's an object to photograph. And to some, it's all of these things on the same day, but for others, it takes on a different meaning depending on where they are in their life cycle.
Everyone agrees there is the Golden Gate bridge, but not everyone agrees that there is just one way to 'see' it.
The same is true of Jesus being the Son of God. At any point in time, we may see him differently from a different angle and stress different qualities bassed on where we are in our Christian life cycle, but we still recognize him as the Son of God.
No illustration is perfect, and they all can be pressed beyond their usefullness, I hopes this helps make a point and gives us freedom of expression about our faith in Jesus as Son of God and Saviour.
Everyone agrees that there is a Golden Gate bridge, they agree on where it is, and it's demensions. It is a suspension bridge that links the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County Caliorina and that it was finished in 1937. The American Society of Civil Engineers have declared it one of the wonders of the modern world.
Beyond the basic facts the bridge can be looked at and described many different ways. None of the differences are 'wrong', they just emphasis different facets of the same bridge. To some it's a road.
To some it's a thing of bueaty.
To others it may be bueatiful, but it also is a thing to be maintained, it's a work place,
This bridge is like our Christian faith - we have unity in the basics and in everything else there is liberty.
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