This is where metaphor is important. Most people reading this passage about the imminent bridegroom read it as "Jesus is coming, look busy." At the time it was written, it would have had greater emphasis. A wedding represented alliances between families and an exchange of property. Among the chattel goods was the bride herself, who went from being her father's property to her husband's.
But the metaphor is inelegant, because the single most important element of any wedding, without which no wedding is valid, is that the bridegroom must consummate the marriage. Are you sure you want this metaphor satisfied?
You seem to think that simply being "all powerful" is a universal trump card. Does all-powerful mean that nothing is more powerful that it? Is all-powerful more powerful than logic? Is all-powerful more powerful than physics? Is an all-powerful, all-good God subject to morality? (i.e.: Is it good because God approves of it, or does God approve of it because is it good?)
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Re: Jesus the Bachelor
Date: 2011-02-16 08:54 pm (UTC)But the metaphor is inelegant, because the single most important element of any wedding, without which no wedding is valid, is that the bridegroom must consummate the marriage. Are you sure you want this metaphor satisfied?
You seem to think that simply being "all powerful" is a universal trump card. Does all-powerful mean that nothing is more powerful that it? Is all-powerful more powerful than logic? Is all-powerful more powerful than physics? Is an all-powerful, all-good God subject to morality? (i.e.: Is it good because God approves of it, or does God approve of it because is it good?)