Give it 200%

I was thinking about the theology of Christ's nature being both 100% divine and 100% human today.
If you think of inherent being as a quantitative and mutually exclusive thing, it's easy to see why this would be a problem for some people to get their heads around. Let's say you have an eight ounce can. You can't fill the can with eight ounces of soda AND eight onces of apple juice. A sixteen ounce mixture will not fit in an eight ounce can.
But we could use another model.
If we associate humanity with the physical attribute of being a liquid, and divinity with the sensation of sweetness...we can have both simultaneously exist in the same space. An eight ounce beverage can 100% liquid (barring particulate matter and carbonation) and also perfectly sweet.
In this regard, we can think of ourselves as being a beverage that is perhaps less sweet. We are not 100% divine...but we might have some sweetness in us (and when we sin, we start to go flat).

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[Christian]

Thank you for your blog, God Bless you :)