Thursday, March 22, 2012

Son of man is from Earth not Krypton ...

... the devil does strike us as having all the best lines.
What he says makes sense to our inverterately
[(of a feeling or habit) long-established and unlikely to change]
right handed souls.

[into which Jesus says]

You can't conceive of a messiah
unless he's dedicated to a lot of superhuman,
right handed punching and interfering ...

[just plain old loving our Daddy God,
will do the messianic thing].

... therefore when we talk about the development
of Jesus' messianic consciousness from
child to Holy Ghost empowering [at 30],
we should stay light years away from any suggestion
that he had a kind of trap door
between his divine and human minds -

we should avoid the humanity-destroying trick
of positing leaks from his deity into his humanity.

The influence of the Holy Spirit alone - 
acting, upon his human nature,
in no fundamentally different way
than His influence does on ours -
is quite sufficient; it covers all biblical bases;
it provides for all the divine "informing"
we ever need to speak of;
and it does so without turning Jesus into Superman.

Indeed the superman analogy is a perfect illustration of
what he is not -
He is not from another planet but from this one.
He does not have in his human nature
powers beyond those of mortal man,
instead, he is just as mortal as we are.

[He shows this with his responses
to the devil's temptations -
He could have used messianic responses from scripture
but he chose the ones we were familiar with.]

Robert Farrar Capon

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