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Originally Posted by Drake
Igzy,
The distinction you are trying to define is similar to that which brother Lee made. He used the essential Trinity where you call it substantially. Your last sentence begins to poke at whar Brother Lee referred to as God"s actions with man, or the economical Trinity.
Drake
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So I guess the question is what is meant by "change"?
If you mean God experienced new things, this is true.
If you mean that changed him fundamentally, I would say no.
But the interesting thing about experience is you've either had it or you haven't. This is true even for God. So though God knew what the experience would be like he hadn't actually had it until he had it.
I don't know enough to know what exactly this difference would be like to God. What is the internal cognitive difference between to fully understand what something would be like to experience and to actually experience it?
So of these ideas are just over our heads?
One of my favorite LCD members and LCM sympathizer,
SpeakersCorner, who is missed, once said that God "needed" us to know what it was like to be weak. That idea has grown on me and I think it is confirmed by Scripture, for example when it says that Jesus had to "learn obedience."