Posted by Fides, etc. on January 24, 19101 at 17:46:46:
In Reply to: Re: Christ OS posted by Woody on January 24, 19101 at 17:11:02:
Woody wrote:
: Well, Fe, how do you respond to my questions about the upgrade being a developmental process versus an instantaneous one?
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: Woody
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Dear Woody,
The transition from the human level to the Christic was not a "developmental climb," as you seem to imply. You can probably tell that I'm a pretty conservative evangelical Christian, but that doesn't keep me from being able to appreciate a variety of points of view.
I can see a developmental climb through the evolutionary process, but there are always leaps, or breakthroughs, where a threshold is crossed and something radically new emerges. Sometimes it seems there are almost no intermediate stages. This leads me to appreciate some of what the creationists teach.
Between fallen humanity and Christ, there are no intermediate stages. There was a cultural evolution in Judaism which helped to form the human psyche so that we could receive Christ, but that's not the same thing as ontological development (to use a term very popular on this thread).
Christ is indeed human, just as we are, but he integrates humanity and divinity in his peson in a way that no one else has done. At least that's what the Church teaches without apologizing to the claims of so-called avatars and others of similar bent. This doesn't clear up the issue about how the rest of us come into this new order of being--whether we're already there, or whether we come to it through faith.
So, that's my reply to your question, unless I have misunderstood you completely. Furthermore, I would submit that all notions of evolving from the human to the Christic are at odds with the core doctrines of Christianity.
Pax,
Fe