The Transcendent Christ Jesus!…..Glorified Son of Man!

When the point of departure of our journey in the understanding of who God is, and what God can and cannot do, namely our Theology, starts with you your study mankind, of Anthropology, we are bound to end up in an intellectual dead end street!

Making  Adam and Eve’s demise in Eden, and mankind’s subsequent decline into sin and dysfunction the definitive interpretive lens of our Theology, confines our reasoning within  a paradigm of ‘sin and salvation’ and limited to man’s subjective interpretation of God, seen only form the perspective of man’s dilemma.

A major consequence of mankind’s lapse into a shame based consciousness of inferiority was the illusion of separation from his Creator. Born out of this sense of estrangement, and in pursuit of appeasing and gaining an acceptable standing with an unseen and an unknown God, mankind has devised myriad forms of religious institutions and observances based on human ‘self-effort’ to please an ‘angry’ God.

Despite their noblest efforts to ‘reach’ God, after thousands of years of ’religion’, mankind, both Hebrew and the Gentiles, were still trapped like a dying infant, smothering in his own vomit, drowning in an unshakable subjective sense of unworthiness and distance.

Like Samson,  having lost his unique identity, held hostage by the enemy, in fetters of guilt and shame,  ‘blind’ ‘bound’ and ‘grinding’ away at the millstone of spiritual ignorance, fear and superstition.
Mankind required outside intervention to save him from his own deep ignorance and self-deception.

We needed someone outside of ourselves, one who really knew God, who could interpret and explain God.
Jesus came and did that, revealing Him not as a Judge, or a hostile andvengeful ogre in the sky, but as a caring and loving Father!

The blindness that dominated man’s spiritual consciousness needed to be healed! His compromised spiritual sight needed to be recovered. Jesus came ‘as the ‘true light that enlightens every man’! He introduced mankind to himself, revealing to him once again his true identity and original genesis in God as spiritual Father.

Jesus did more than that, He not only introduced the Father, but in fact brought Divinity into union with humanity, ultimately transporting humanity into Divinity in His own Person.
Your theology should rather have its point of departure in an understanding the eternal council of the Trinity!

The Fathers intention and purpose in eternity past to lovingly embrace  humanity within His perfect relationship with His  only uniquely Begotten Son.

From this perspective, God’s dealings with man supersedes the elements of ‘sin and salvation’, however vital they are in the scheme of things. The larger context becomes the objective external end eternal reality of Adoption, or inclusion of mankind into the Love and Life of the Trinity through ChristJesus.


This unilateral act of the Fathers Love and Grace is described in Ephesians.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,  just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by whichHe made us accepted in the Beloved. Ephesians 1:3-6

This revelation requires a ‘repentance,’ a change of mind, a new paradigm of thinking, in fact a return to an authentic and original Apostolic appreciation and vision of Jesus Christ, as Who He really is as the Son of God, not merely as Jesus of Nazareth the Son of Man.

Not merely upgrading the limited and fragmented prevailing perspective compiled from the subjective interpretation of man within creation which we know as ‘salvation’ but an expanded view of Jesus as the Cosmic or Universal Christ, the Son of God, in fact, very God Himself.

The recognition that Jesus Christ is indeed the very source, agent and fulfilment of all creation. The One in Whom everything in creation consists, and exists, and is reconciled to is Creator.

.....the Triune God has taken full responsibility for the consequences of the fall and also the ultimate reconciliation of the crown of their creation, mankind.

Understanding that the Triune God has taken full responsibility for the consequences of the fall and also the ultimate reconciliation of the crown of their creation, mankind. Hence Jesus didn’t come into Adam’s domain, Adam came into Christ domain.

The realization that there is no other God beyond or behind Jesus Christ, a God who thinks and acts differently towards mankind than Jesus Christ Himself does, and against whom Jesus is shielding or protecting us.

That the Son and the Father are ultimately one in purpose and are inextricably bound  in union with mankind through the Glorification of Jesus, the Son of Man,  Who is in and of Himself the Mediator and Guarantor of an ‘Eternal  Covenant’, an ‘us’ inclusive relationship between the eternal Father and the Son on our behalf!

This grand and transcended revelation of Jesus Christ was first expressed by Jesus Himself and subsequently penned in ink by the beloved Apostle John, the great teacher of the Church, the Apostle Paul and the writer to the Hebrews.