Posted by Fides etc. on January 24, 19101 at 13:11:11:
In Reply to: Christ OS posted by Philoman on January 24, 19101 at 12:56:07:
Philoman wrote:
What I thought about was how Christ did much the same with our human nature. By becoming incarnate as a man, he took our human nature and "upgraded it" into his human-divine nature. He is like a new OS that preserves the distinctive features of the old--our basic human OS--but elevates it to a new level of potentiality, energy and stability.
I've thought about this, too, Philo, but it suggests that some kind of ontological change has been effected by the Incarnation, death, resurrection, etc. If that's the case, then our human nature is already "in Christ" and I'm not sure that's correct. What I learned was that it is by faith that we become upgraded, to use your analogy, and that unless we're born again and open ourselves to Christ through faith, we remain in our "old humanity," or in the old OS.
I suppose this raises all kinds of questions about salvation, who gets it, how it happens, etc., and I don't know if we want to go that route. I'm game if anyone else is, however.
Fe