Great question from In a Mirror Dimly: Ed Cyzewski  

My comment.

This is a terrific question. One of those questions that it worth returning to again and again.

THE question that launched Christianity is “Jesus, what is he?” After the resurrection monotheists worshiped him, but some doubted. The church has been doing this ever since.

Paul begins to write about us being “in Christ”, not language we normally use with regular folk.

It’s also important to ponder that this Jesus is a resurrected Jesus. He’s the embodiment of the fulfillment of the stuff he cared about. He healed the sick, multiplied loaves and fishes, stilled the storm, spoke gently and healingly to a Samaritan woman, and cast out money changers. All of this is embodied in that fish eating body that got into locked rooms and declared “all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.”

Ideally there can of course be no separation because his resurrected body is the stuff of the new heaven and earth where racism, hunger, illness, injustice and all the separate us from the perfection we are made for has been undone. The conflict your question elicits bears witness to our failure to see that reality.

The title of your blog comes to mind. 🙂

Thanks for pondering and sharing. pvk