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If you will acknowledge that you have sinned against God, and if you trust Jesus to save you from the just punishment of a holy God, you will find that He will make you into a new person, from the inside out

[/ QUOTE ] - Dr Schaeffer

Question: If God is omnipresent, then God IS Jesus. If not, Christ is the son of God (?), so is part of God (?). Therefore, "God" is saving us from His own just punishment?

Which would pose an interesting question: Why send JC down to put into effect a fundemental change of religious dogma? What could possible cause an omnipotent holy God to do this? Why would such a Creator need to make his religion (fundementally) more forgiving? Especially at a time when the Romans were being much more zealous in their methods of "gentle persuasion".

Could it be that Jesus wasn't any more the Son of God than you or I? Could it be that he, at the age of 30, decided "You know what - I'm going to start up a religio-social movement that will sweep the known world like wildfire"? Or should we simply accept the wise words of the good Dr as if a mathematical proof?

And, as a small aside, technically Newton wasn't a Christian (although he did study the Bible a lot. Gravity was the mechanism by which everything worked, but God set it all in motion. This means that God is fundementally removed from his creation, as any intervention would imply an imperfection (see Leibniz). Therefore, the understanding of the world is brought down to pure human reasoning.