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Further to my last post,

madaussie and I were discussing the Exodus 4:24 situation; getting into a barroom brawl with God (no, really!)

The question is this; in that situation, imagine the whole Trinity has turned up. Who do you try and take down first? Your options are;

God.
Strengths: omniscience, omnipotence, smiting.
Weaknesses: arrogance, jealousy, obviously contradictory attributes.

Holy Spirit.
Strengths: can make you pregnant unexpectedly in some Gospel continuities.
Weaknesses: unknown, but seems kind of wussy.

Jesus.
Strengths: could turn all water in your body into wine.
Weaknesses: holes in wrists, ankles limit mobility. Can probably be kneed in balls.

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Agree with your reasoning, but I'm not convinced about taking down the serious threat first; you should avoid the serious threat, and take down the easy targets first. Hence Holy Spirit, then Jesus, then you can concentrate on a proper knock-down with God without the other two distracting you.

Only problem is if it takes too long, Jesus gets back up again after 3 days...

If you can avoid the serious threat, that sounds good on paper; but I suspect God's aim would be rather too accurate, which means that you have to withstand a constant barrage of smiting from the opening of hostilities until you take that sucker down. Minimising that length of time is thus paramount.

As for Jesus rising again, pah. Camp on his restart point and you're sorted.

God is often a bit indiscriminate - you could start the fight when next to some Midianites.

Not sure there's many left - he may be indiscriminate, but that smiting tends to hurt.

As for Jesus rising again, pah. Camp on his restart point and you're sorted.

You owe me a new keyboard, you bastard...

Maybe if you hammer a stake into his heart it'll be OK.

No. Always take the biggest threat first, because you want to minimize the time that biggest threat has to inflict damage on you. If you're going to fail, that's where it's going to happen, but if you succeed - maybe the others will run away - it's a huge morale hit seeing your tank get pwn3d.

Thinking about it some more, I'm seeing God as more the DPS, Jesus as the healer, and the Holy Spirit as a support class. If this is the case, Jesus needs to go down ASAP, followed quickly by God, leaving the Holy Spirit with nothing to do.

I seem to be lacking some context here, and Wikipedia doesn't seem to have provided it for me, amusing as one or two of the resulting mental images were.

You want "damage per second"; it's a World Of Warcraft-ism. In WoW team roles are highly formalised.

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