Philosophical Topics (Philosophy of the Mind Prt. II)

Two of the three substances: God, and Christ

Anne Conway talks about the three aspects of being in the form of God, Jesus Christ, and Creation. In chapter vi of her works "The Principe of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy" she talks about these three beings as if they can change into another species or something of the same species (Atherton, 49). She starts off with the argument that God is unchanging and is already perfect, and while yes this is completely true there are times where God himself has decided to change somethings around in a person's life. For example, when a child is due to be born on a particular date (for example April 8) God himself might decide to have that child either not be born at all and the mother has a miscarriage or the child might be born prematurely in which the child, doctors, and parents are fighting and believing for the child's life. God himself sees everything and he himself might allow the child to die as he sees fit. Now I am not saying that God is all evil and causes terrible things to happen to good people or those who believe in him, what I am saying is that sometimes God does change his mind, He himself does not change. He himself gives an example in the holy Bible that says in Isaiah that "the grass withers and the flowers fade, but the Word of the Lord stands forever." "So, shall my word go forth out of my mouth and not return to me unaccomplished until it has accomplished what I have sent it to do." (Isaiah 40:8; 55:11).

Mrs. Conway goes into the second aspect of being with Jesus Christ stating that Jesus is infinitely changeable, but always for the better. One would not agree with part of that statement and say that Jesus is not infinitely changeable since Jesus himself is the incarnation of God himself. Mrs. Conway quotes the very scripture herself of John 1:1-3, and she also states on page 52 that he alone is one and only one and that when he was born he was a representation of the first Adam just completed being born of only one mother. Granted yes Jesus the Christ himself was born of a virgin mother and is fully human and fully divine in all his splendor and power, but just because he is deemed as the second Adam does not mean that he is infinitely changeable because he is not infinitely changeably since he is God himself in the flesh being the Word made flesh which changes not according to the scriptures in Malachi 3:6 . Now how does he change for the better one might ask? Well he is the better with the healings and the miracles that he performed while walking and talking among the people. Every action that he performed made one follow him for a better purpose and a better life did it not? If what the Christ did while walking and talking amongst us was for nothing Mrs. Conway then we would not still be here not would we even know whom Christ is or for that matter even God himself. God himself would be a figment of our self-consciousness and imagination. One thing that Mrs. Conway did accomplish is her statement saying that Christ is the mediation between God and creation being the balance between that which is spiritual and that which is natural of human made and humanness.

So then how is it that God himself is already perfect, Jesus himself is not? Would this not be such a contradictory for both supreme and powerful beings that are two entities in one person? One cannot function without the other and one is not greater than the other since they are both one in the same. Christ is God and God is Christ they were both there in the beginning and created the creation of creatures and the planet we live did they not? Did they not breathe life into the planet we walk on? Did they not speak and the mountains were created along with every living thing such as us from the very first Adam (since Jesus himself is the second Adam and he claims to be so)? So then God and Jesus are not separated from each other and in fact they are both unchangeable and already perfect.