The Mediation of Christ Book

Hit me with that vicarious humanity of Christ. Inject it into my veins:

"Jesus was incorporated into a long line of sinners, the wickedness of which the Bible does not cover up [and] he made the generations of humanity his very own, summing up in himself our sinful stock, precisely in order to forgive, heal, and sanctify it in himself...From his birth to his death and resurrection on our behalf, he sanctified what he assumed through his own self-consecration as incarnate Son."

In an ontological, real, tangible way, Jesus has healed humanity. He, the fullness of deity, assumed human flesh, healing it by his divine power from the inside out, from infancy to death. He was faithful for the faithless. And now?

"[Reconciliation] means that the eternal communion of love in God overflows through Jesus Christ into our union with Christ and gathers us up to dwell with God and in God."

Jesus is all we have. His prayers, his works, his faithfulness, his steadfastness, his life, his death, his resurrection, his ascension, his coming again. Through him we participate in the divine life. Other things I took from this book are that the incarnation and atonement cannot be separated but are two parts of the same whole.

Having said that, bro could use an editor. Ok, maybe the rest of y'all are smarter than I am, but I don't enjoy (re)reading run-on sentences that could have used a full stop 15 words ago. I'm not the Apostle Paul. Other times, I felt he went all the way around his point to get to it, instead of writing more direct. Don't blame me, my wife's a journalist. That said, I enjoyed and recommend it.