Ethics and the Third Person -- the choice of the Good, and other choices
[Note: the contents page for this series can be found here. The previous entry, starting Chapter 40, can be found here. ] [This entry concludes Chapter 40, "An Introduction to the Concept of Sin".] I have inferred that it is possible for God to enact one kind of death, and indeed that He does enact this: the submission of the Son to the Father (while maintaining the distinctive existence of the Person of the Son) in order to complete the circuit of the Unity and thus actively maintain self-existence. I have further deduced from this that it is technically possible for God to partly kill Himself in other ways, so that true creation of not-God entities and systems may be instituted; after all, here I am, a not-God entity. It is therefore not in principle impossible for God to subject Himself to several sorts of death. I conclude, in extension of this principle, that it must be possible that God could take actions that would result in the breaking of the Unity and His consequ