This in response to something from a week or so ago:Of course Jesus was and is Man, how else could He be relevant for these two millennia? Another definition would involve magic, the supernatural, a suspension of reason, and that has always been a weak theological line.
And yes, anything other than God is blasphemy, that is the definition of blasphemy; what Jesus did and does is enable us to transcend the mundane, to assist us in joining the Spirit.
The whole point of the spiritual journey is to become one again, to become more than we were, to get as close to the ineffable as possible.
And, as a last note: The bible becomes holy only when it assists us in going to where we ought to be. If it is just a recipe book to be memorized and followed mindlessly, it remains merely a book.
I think that how I understand the Spirit, the direction along the Path, that it is in the spirit of Luther, that he showed us the courage to know directly.
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