I thought about something you said on another thread (can't remember where). You mentioned something to the effect that we too often think of Jesus as a kind of superman who was beyond the vicissitudes of human experience. You were saying it doesn't do justice to the Incarnation. I don't want to put words in your mouth, but it seemed to apply here.
That does sound like something I’d believe.
Like any good topic, it’s something we could revisit again and return with fresh insight.
Rethinking the whole point now, we are more often than not wrapped up in defending the deity of Christ, since that’s what people find objectionable.
So in a sense, enemies of the church are the driving force behind much of the content in our thought life, in the meantime, Christ’s humanity goes largely unexplored by the mainstream. Nobody finds Jesus’ humanity objectionable or worth exploring, and as a result neither do we.
Not exploring the greatness of God becoming
truly man is a collective mistake on our part.
If we start at Jesus being man, then we begin arguing up to His divine status, we are viewing the whole divine drama in reverse.
It’s retarding our awe, because if we go the right way round and start our thoughts at the divine, then do our best to picture divine condescension, God becoming man, human, male, truly in every way, that’s worthy of being in awe of or worthy of being called a great mystery.
God becoming what we often describe as an ugly, lower creature should really explode most of the man hating “Christian” theologies out there. If we really followed their train of thought to its logical conclusion, the incarnation either couldn’t or wouldn’t have happened.