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I'll repeat it--The man speaking could have been pointing to his son and speaking about himself--BUT, if you are a Christian, you are NEVER without brothers and sisters. So if the man speaking is a Christian--the ONLY answer would be Jesus Christ--who is both Father and Son.
Yeshua Bless You
And the moral of the story is---as a Christian we don't point fingers to draw attention to ourselves, we know who God is and where He is. For He walked among His own and His own knew Him not. JOHN 1:10, John 1:1-14
Yeshua Bless You
And the moral of the story is---as a Christian we don't point fingers to draw attention to ourselves, we know who God is and where He is. For He walked among His own and His own knew Him not. JOHN 1:10, John 1:1-14
Yeshua Bless You
THIS is the answer, THIS is the riddle solved!!!!!
But THIS MAN's FATHER is my father's son. It can NOT be the speaker himself whose father is his father's son. Does that make sense? If you are talking about your father being THE FATHER (meaning God)'s son then that could make sense but that is not the sense of the riddle. You would then be speaking about something else entirely and the riddle was not presented as religious so the priest scenario is not really viable. The riddle is ordinarily posed as ordinary humans involved and the scenario I posted with 3 human males involved makes the only real sense. A father, who has no blood brothers or sisters points to his son, says, Brothers and sisters have I none, yet 'this man's father" which refers to himself, is my father's son, because, of course, he is his own father's son and yet the father of his son. So the speaker is the middle of the trio, the father of his son but also the son of his own father. I don't see how that is so complicated.
I give up. This riddle has been around since I was a kid, (1950's) and is a logic puzzle, nothing to do with God or Jesus, and the answer was the MAN is the speaker's son. If you want to insert God--ok-- but you can not have it make sense in an ordinary way to have the man's father be your father's son if it was you speaking about yourself. If you said this man, referring to yourself is my father's son, that would make sense, but to say this man's (yourself) father is my father's son, would be saying my father is my father's son and that can't happen no matter how intermarried your family might be. Maybe if time travel was real.....ugh. Now if you want to insert the Trinity, well, I still don't see how that works but whatever floats your (speaking generically, not specifically addressed to the poster I quoted) boat.
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