Subject: what qualifies christ to be our reconcil |
Bible Note: Cyndie, The answer is still Christ's divine nature along with His human nature in the incaration. Thus in the flesh of the God Man, Jesus Christ, God and man are reconciled. He is "the visible image of the invisible God." Through Him we become partakers of the divine nature. "The Word became flesh to make us 'PARTAKERS of the divine nature':[2 Pet 1:4 .] 'For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God.'[St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 19, 1: PG 7/1, 939.] 'For the Son of God became man so that we might become God.'[St. Athanasius, De inc. 54, 3: PG 25, 192B.] 'The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods.'[St. Thomas Aquinas, Opusc. 57, 1-4.]" "Man is predestined to reproduce the image of God's Son made man, the 'image of the invisible God' (COL 1:15), so that Christ shall be the first-born of a multitude of brothers and sisters (cf. Eph 1:3-6; Rom 8:29)." . "To human beings God even gives the power of freely sharing in his providence by entrusting them with the responsibility of 'subduing' the earth and having dominion over it.[Cf. Gen 1:26-28 .] God thus enables men to be intelligent and free causes in order to complete the work of creation, to perfect its harmony for their own good and that of their neighbours. Though often unconscious collaborators with God's will, they can also enter deliberately into the divine plan by their actions, their prayers and their sufferings.[Cf. COL 1:24.] They then fully become 'God's fellow workers' and co-workers for his kingdom.[1 Cor 3:9 ; 1 Th 3:2 ; COL 4:11.]" "Christ's whole life is a mystery of redemption. Redemption comes to us above all through the blood of his cross,[Cf. Eph 1:7 ; COL 1:13-14; 1 Pet 1:18-19 .] but this mystery is at work throughout Christ's entire life: -already in his Incarnation through which by becoming poor he enriches us with his poverty;[Cf. 2 Cor 8:9 .] - in his hidden life which by his submission atones for our disobedience;[Cf. Lk 2:51 .] - in his word which purifies its hearers;[Cf. Jn 15:3 .]- in his healings and exorcisms by which 'he took our infirmities and bore our diseases';[Mt 8:17 ; cf. Is 53:4 .] - and in his Resurrection by which he justifies us.[Cf. Rom 4:25 .]" "The cross is the unique sacrifice of Christ, the 'one mediator between God and men'.[1 Tim 2:5 .] But because in his incarnate divine person he has in some way united himself to every man, 'the possibility of being made partners, in a way known to God, in the paschal mystery' is offered to all men.[GS 22 # 5; cf. Emmaus |
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