Christianity and the Incarnation Project--Part V
Qualities of Heaven from the Source in God can be manifest through the instrument of a human consciousness that is turned toward and tuned to the divine Presence. This is the visionary seeing of Yeshua and the teaching of early Christianity. Human beings need not be barriers to these qualities, but their direct “site” in the temporal order. However, for this expression to become full and free something else must occur. These qualities must be embodied. This is the Incarnation Project that becomes central to Christian teaching.
Christianity’s central metaphor is Incarnation. This doctrine is well known in all forms of Christianity. In the West it becomes a formal doctrine and an established dogma that says once and for all time God became human in the person of Jesus Christ. He, and he alone, was the true Incarnation. Nothing like it before or since has ever occurred. This expresses the uniqueness not only of Christ, but of Christianity. It also demonstrates its superiority to other religious traditions. While expressing a truth, it is my view that this formal doctrine took the wrong path, and as a result, has made it almost impossible to recover the true doctrine of the Incarnation and the Incarnation Project that Christianity has at its center.
In the most real way imaginable the central project of Christianity is not the unique incarnation of the divine into one man alone, but the possibility of “embodied Reality” in all beings. Incarnation is a verb, which means the making real in an actual body the knowledge and reality of God. Christian truth is, therefore, embodied truth or knowledge—carnal knowledge that is enfleshed in a human being. For truth to be fully known, ultimately, it must be embodied and lived. This is the secret of Incarnation and it is a project for every one of us. The truth of the Incarnation is the way that God becomes known and realized in human affairs.
The Incarnation is, therefore, a shared project. What Yeshua experienced, every follower must know—true embodiment. That is Christianity’s secret. Humans can embody truth in just the way that Yeshua did. His path is to teach us embodiment and incarnation as a verb. He is not unique, though he may be the first to know it—for it is a shared reality and a reality to be share. A reality he makes come alive within each of us.
Christianity’s central metaphor is Incarnation. This doctrine is well known in all forms of Christianity. In the West it becomes a formal doctrine and an established dogma that says once and for all time God became human in the person of Jesus Christ. He, and he alone, was the true Incarnation. Nothing like it before or since has ever occurred. This expresses the uniqueness not only of Christ, but of Christianity. It also demonstrates its superiority to other religious traditions. While expressing a truth, it is my view that this formal doctrine took the wrong path, and as a result, has made it almost impossible to recover the true doctrine of the Incarnation and the Incarnation Project that Christianity has at its center.
In the most real way imaginable the central project of Christianity is not the unique incarnation of the divine into one man alone, but the possibility of “embodied Reality” in all beings. Incarnation is a verb, which means the making real in an actual body the knowledge and reality of God. Christian truth is, therefore, embodied truth or knowledge—carnal knowledge that is enfleshed in a human being. For truth to be fully known, ultimately, it must be embodied and lived. This is the secret of Incarnation and it is a project for every one of us. The truth of the Incarnation is the way that God becomes known and realized in human affairs.
The Incarnation is, therefore, a shared project. What Yeshua experienced, every follower must know—true embodiment. That is Christianity’s secret. Humans can embody truth in just the way that Yeshua did. His path is to teach us embodiment and incarnation as a verb. He is not unique, though he may be the first to know it—for it is a shared reality and a reality to be share. A reality he makes come alive within each of us.
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