Posted by Teresita on January 26, 19101 at 14:56:25:
In Reply to: Re: Christ OS: the Fall - You must be "carbonized" posted by Philoman on January 26, 19101 at 08:19:06:
Yes, Philo, with the others I concur that you have advanced the discussion, here, and proven the OS analogy to have even more merit than I had thought it would.
Fides (below) has done a nice job of describing how OS 9.x running a Classic application opens inside of OS X and allows the software to work on OS 9.x code (incidentally, we use both Macs and PC's at my work, so I was already somewhat familiar with OS X).
Classic/OS 9.x can work inside of OS X, and that's pretty cool and gives us some idea of the ongotlogical situation in which we live. But there's a sense in which Christ OS is more involved in Human OS than in the computer analogy. After all, OS 9.x is working in a more or less self-contained way inside of OS X--or maybe along-side, I'm not sure. Christ OS, however, is not so radically disconnected from the Human OS, but is a dynamism interior to it. There is radical, ontological discontinuity between the Human and Christic levels in that one doesn't evolve into the other: for sure. But there is also an energetic continuity between the two in that a bridge of love mediated by the human/divine person of Jesus connects the them in such a way that Christ OS is intimately present to every block on the Human OS configured hard drive. Every time we consent to love, we travers that bridge and become more transformed--carbonized, to use the current OS metaphor.
So, yes, I think we're getting somewhere with all of this, especially if we can keep in mind that what we are calling Christ OS has always been an interior dynamism at work in evolution even prior to the Incarnation. With the Incarnation, it attained a conscious realization in the person of Jesus, who is indeed the first-born of the new creation, as Paul affirmed so powerfully in the first generation of Christianity.
Shalom,
T