"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
So a while back, an acquaintance tagged me in the comments of this Facebook post:
I was really at a loss as to why he’d think this is genius, but the more confusing response comes from tereziinateacup…
If you believe that God created all time, space and matter out of NOTHING (Latin: “ex nihilo”), why would you be confused as to how God could create a single little Y chromosome?
So who’s seen Wonder Woman yet? 😀
“Man’s maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother’s breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo
“God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from dead ends to doorways into Life. In the divinizing humanity of Christ, bruises become balm.”
― Martin Laird, Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
“He came down from heaven” can almost be transposed into “Heaven drew earth up into it,” and locality, limitation, sleep, sweat, footsore weariness, frustration, pain, doubt, and death are, from before all worlds, known by God from within. The pure light walks the earth; the darkness, received into the heart of Deity, is there swallowed up. Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?
– C. S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering men. For one who wanted to make a display the thing would have been just to appear and dazzle the beholders. But for Him Who came to heal and to teach the way was not merely to dwell here, but to put Himself at the disposal of those who needed Him, and to be manifested according as they could bear it, not vitiating the value of the Divine appearing by exceeding their capacity to receive it.
― St. Athanasius of Alexandria, On the Incarnation
Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us.
– Karl Barth, Dogmatics in Outline