Some topics/concepts which might interest you; links are to articles from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, which is generally a solid resource for exploring Christian theology and religion, albeit from a thoroughly Roman Catholic perspective:

Hypostatic Union: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07610b.htm

The Incarnation: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07706b.htm

Communicatio Idiomatum: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04169a.htm

Given your profile, here are three unsolicited software ideas with their justifications. I'd make them myself, but I don't have the time or the dedication (I'm not Catholic--mostly because any Integralist state would burn me at the stake for similar if not identical reasons the "secular arm" burned Bruno). Perhaps you might know someone who does.

1. A fork of HamTrainer (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.practicalapps.hamtrainer...) using the Baltimore Catechisms I-IV as its test banks. The point of a catechism is to actually be able to memorize it and to be able to reflect upon the dogmas of the Church at will. The current catechism is great as its intended purpose as a reference, but the actual regional catechisms (YOUCAT, Adult Catechism et. al) often fail to summarize the tenets in a digestible and rote way. If RCIA fails to be a uniformly "good" experience due to its reliance upon volunteers, effectively automating the ingestion of the dogmas of the Church makes (to my mind) perfect sense for the sincere would-be initiates. It would be trivial to transform the Gutenberg transcriptions of the Baltimore catechisms into the multiple choice format used by HamTrainer. The main difficulty would be curating a meaningful set of "wrong" answers.

2. A fully macronized and properly put together epub3 (ala Standard Ebooks) of the Nova and/or Clementina Vulgata. The Latin Macronizer (https://github.com/Alatius/latin-macronizer) would perform most of the heavy lifting. Any errors or absences could be iteratively corrected once the scaffold was in place. Given the primacy of the Vulgate in the Catholic Church, it's a little disappointing that the Nova Vulgata is freely available as a Vatican website, but no one has put together an actual proper ebook of it. Ditto with the Divine Office, but this would probably destroy the livelihood of some individuals.

3. Syntax highlighting for Latin with Whittaker's Words (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Whitaker%27s_Words) providing most of the heavy lifting. The number one issue people seem to have with learning Latin is the inability to decode the appropriate tense and inflection at speed. Syntax highlighting for (macronized) Latin is the obvious choice for simplifying this process until it becomes second nature for the user.

Interesting, maybe, but ... next time drop an email address or indicate some other way to contact you that's within your personal comfort zone re: sharing in a comment on HN, while also indicating that you have some software ideas you'd like to explore. I imagine most users on HN would prefer that approach, but I could be wrong.

No, thanks. I've removed the offending content. Sorry for the bother.

It wasn't particularly offensive nor bothersome, your comments just seemed out of place and the kind of thing that should be preceded by a private query as to whether the other person is interested in entertaining your proposal/s.

Your insistence on formality rather than charity is truly a testament to your faith.

In the Apocrypha, an angry child Jesus is said to have pushed a playmate off of something high, killing him. Had to pull a bailout miracle

The question is definitely interesting. I'm no theologian either, but I do wonder if that sort of "humanizing" via imperfection would actually appeal a lot to people who already want an anthropomorphic relationship with spirituality anyway.

> Like a time he cured a sick man, and this man turned out to be a crook or something.

Can't resist nitpicking your example, though. If he did this, he'd have something in common with plenty of folks who took the Hippocratic oath. ;) And I bet they'd all say it's not a mistake at all.

You're talking about the dude famous for the command "love your enemy" and fraternizing with all kinds of "unsavory" people. He would absolutely not regard healing a crook as a mistake. It's a little alarming that you would.

Ed: not to mention the fact that, canonically anyway, he would definitely know in advance who/what they were.

I wasn't making any claims about what I would do.

Maybe I can better phrase my example..

Would Jesus heal a super sick / dying man who Jesus knew is gonna murder like 10 people as soon as he's better?

The thought problem in my example was about curing a person who will commit a serious crime in the future only after being healed enough to commit this crime. And the supernatural healer having this foreknowledge.

You might find the notion of the stoic “sage” interesting. It’s more or less the impossible manifestation of perfect human virtues in one human being; something akin to being a perfect human all the time, though not godly.

It wasn’t thought that a Sage would be emotionless at all, but would actually embrace emotions fully. They would just be the ideal emotions to express for the given circumstance.

It’s a far-fetched idea but the case for emotion being unnecessary is refuted well by stoicism and other philosophies (in my opinion). I think the idea that a perfect entity would feel nothing may be inspired by the fact that as humans, we’re often victims of our own emotions and we fear how they can control us. In reality, they’re a useful tool of expression, positive reinforcement, and communication. The only problem is when they aren’t the product of careful reflection and ongoing consideration.