mikokiko
posted on Nov 05, 2008 - 05:41 AM
Thank you for your kind words, but allow me to critique some of your points. One grave error we must never EVER make, is to claim that the Logos, the Word of God, is impersonal. Once we make that mistake Christianity becomes vain. The Logos is personal, the Logos is a Who, not a What. A conscious rational being became Man (who is also a conscious rational being). The Logos was never an impersonal 'thing'. And this is where I think you've missed the point. Yes God the Father reveals His Reason in bits and pieces in nature, and in the Scriptures (and even in the truth statements of other religions as close in proximity as they are to the Logos, the Christ, the One Truth).
The fundamental, and most precious and endearing tenet of the Christian faith is not simply of the Revelation of the Logos. But of Healing, and of Alleviation. Christ did not come simply to show us something, like you said, we had the Scriptures for that, and He had already visited not so infrequently in the Old Testament, when God Himself became tangible to the prophets (through His Reason [the Logos]). This Healing, this Alleviation, could not be done by something impersonal, not even could it be done by God the Father Himself, or His Spirit, but by His revealed Eternal and Divine Logos in the flesh as one of us. No different.
He was born in Palestinian poverty, had best friends, ate, drank, slept, attended weddings, had a Mother to care for Him, was betrayed by His best friends, denied by another, tortured by the Israeli police, rejected by His own people, and executed shamefully as the worst criminal of all without a just cause, and yet He was the Anchor of the Universe. For forty days He went hungry in the wilderness, and yet it is He who feeds all flesh. He asked to drink, and yet it was He who is the fountain of Life, and the spring of Eternity.
He was laid naked on the cross, and yet it is He who clothes all. He did not have a place to rest His head, but He created the world for our shelter, with the sky as its ceiling, and the Sun as its light. While He was being slapped, He sustained the universe, and had the earth held in the palm of His hand. It is the Greatest Paradox of all time, that the Infinite God of Power, Glory and Majesty, became a Man of Poverty and suffering, for our sake, out of the abundance of His infinite Love.
And they thought that they could kill God Himself, the Prince of Life. But He tasted death with us, and after three days, as the incorruptible God and the Resurrection Himself, He rose from the dead, so that, having united humanity with His Divinity in His incarnation, we too were granted Eternal Life. For the Timeless entered our history, and the Inspatial was born in Bethlehem, Palestine, and the Immaterial became a Man.
In this paradox lies the mystery that the greater something is, the lower it can descend to help. For without the Eternal Logos' descension to our corrupted human nature, to become one with it and united with His, our corruption would never be healed. The dilemma of sin, that has so long plagued man, was being destroyed. The pride, that made him mistake himself for the I AM, the Self-Existent, made the I AM Himself, descend to become like Him, and endure a life of suffering, though He is the Joy of the Universe. For when the sinless God took the place of man on the Cross, AS the only Man without sin, we were healed. It is time for you my dearest friend, to accept the Holy Sacrifice God has granted you, for how great a loss will we face if we reject so glorious a salvation.
From the heights of heaven Christ descended for your sake, as if you were the only man that existed, to save you from the bondage of the enemy, and the corruption that has kept you away from perfection. Out of His benevolence, He took the unbearable pain that we at times have all experienced. If GOD, the Holy, the Master of all, did not become Man HIMSELF, Humanity, would have fallen into the endless pit of damnation forever, when we chose to set ourselves up as the Self-Existent ones. When it was in the Paradise we first chose to disobey Him, and obey our passions, making ourselves God, thinking that we could live away from the very source of Life. But where Life is not, Death reigns, and we fell. But now He has granted us all the opportunity to accept Him, and become free of the enmity.
A testimony to the truth of these statements are the countless prophecies, which the Jews, who do not agree with us, now hold in their Scriptures, and in our Old Testament. They literally paint for us a picture of Christ Himself.
So too put it simply, Christ isn't simply a 'form' of the Logos, He IS the Logos. The Logos became Man, and One Hypostasis of a United Essence of the Divine and Human Natures Unaltered. If so the Logos became FULLY incarnate and revealed in Christ, and so any truth we see is not only the Logos, but of Christ, for He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, as you correctly said. And having become Man, He has become the Salvation of Humanity, and emancipated her from the slavery of sin, and taken her to the meadows of eternity, and the palaces of freedom.
God Bless
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