The history of mankind is replete with a confusion of
opinions as men have advocated competing ideologies to
attempt to explain themselves and their universe. Their
quest for identity and meaning, for certainty and security,
are but an ongoing enactment of Babel with semantic and
interpretive diversities ad infinitum.
Greek philosophers in particular were adept at
articulating reasoned explanations of universal principles.
Socratic dialecticism, Platonic dualism, Aristotelian
rationalism all indicate the epistemological base of the
Greek philosophers which has had such a lasting effect on
Western thought and religion.
"In the fullness of time" (Gal. 4:4), Jesus Christ, the
God-man, was vested into the historical situation of
mankind by the incarnation. As the "I AM" (Exod. 3:14)
Being of God, He repeatedly verbalized such in the ego
eimi declarations recorded particularly in John’s gospel
(John 6:35; 8:12,58; 10:9,11; 11:25; 14:6; 15:1). He came
as man to take the sin of man, to vicariously bear the death
consequences of sin as man, in order to restore mankind
with His divine life, the restoration of functional humanity
by the ontological presence of the Spirit of Christ within
the spirit of man. This is the grace distinctive of
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