tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post1562441340078870600..comments2024-03-28T13:23:50.623-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: The possibility of multiple incarnationsAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-18859679309381956572022-10-27T15:10:15.651-05:002022-10-27T15:10:15.651-05:00In my view, not only can there be individuals who ...In my view, not only can there be individuals who have simultaneous incarnations on this Earth and other worlds, but identical physical traits and habits / personalities. Separately created individuals from a totally different set of parents who are in fact identical twins. I have witnessed this phenomenon at least three times during my 66 years on the planet. My ex wife had an identical personality with identical features in our community 2,000 miles from where she was born. My Ex is handicapped and has a facial tick as does her duplicate. The resemblance is astonishing! Whitemornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03232817517737879230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-74271958304065815812016-03-20T20:10:19.233-05:002016-03-20T20:10:19.233-05:00In C S Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, the Lord ...In C S Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, the Lord is incarnated as a Lion in one world (Narnia) while being incarnated as human in another world (Earth). The picture there always seemed quite intuitively plausible to me. On the other hand, Aslan was never (as far as I can tell) *born* in Narnia, which might make a difference.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06251565524682589544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-24903988467909498812016-03-19T18:54:05.595-05:002016-03-19T18:54:05.595-05:00The incarnation entailed a great sacrifice. How ma...The incarnation entailed a great sacrifice. How many times can a necessary being cease to exist? Mark Rogershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12691324025964108341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-32857362758103010702016-03-19T08:40:46.749-05:002016-03-19T08:40:46.749-05:00It's not so much the geographic location that&...It's not so much the geographic location that's at issue as species membership or ancestry.<br />A standard idea is that God saved humanity by becoming human. One might try to take "human" here not to mean our particular species but rational animals in general. But Scripture emphasizes how like us Jesus is. That suggests that "human" is more specific than "rational animal".<br />There is also the thread that family relationship is important: Jesus saved the descendants of Eve by himself being one of them. But Martians presumably wouldn't be descendants of Eve.<br />That said, God certainly could save nonhuman rational animals through Christ. And there is the strand of the tradition about the universality of redemption for creation. Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-24995167579216241542016-03-19T07:49:47.138-05:002016-03-19T07:49:47.138-05:00If multiple incarnations are necessary for the red...If multiple incarnations are necessary for the redemption of rational creatures in various geographical locations in the universe, then we must question whether the incarnation in this world was sufficient for all in this world. Mark Rogershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12691324025964108341noreply@blogger.com