I AM....like you, fully Divine, fully human

From Rohr:
"The manifestation of the Great I AM in Jesus, which was the momentous Christian epiphany, became so thrilling to the new Era that they forgot the continued need to balance his newly discovered divinity with his personally, and even more strongly proclaimed humanity.
Remember, virtually Jesus' only form of self reference -- 87 times in the 4 Gospels - was ben'adam - a "son of the human one".
We, as a church, have never really been able to balance his divinity and his humanity, which is why we have never been able to put it together in ourselves. We just don't have the proper software for the task.
Theism believes that there is a God. Christianity believes that God and humanity can coexist in the same place.
These are two utterly different proclamations about the nature of the universe. In my experience, most Christians are very good Theists, who just happen to have named their god Jesus."

The concept of Trinity- both coexistant as Holy Spirit- is not understandable from our "either/or" dualistic perspective.

This is non duality at its highest form.

And for this, on this Thanksgiving Day, 2012, I am grateful... Yet it remains mystery. I contemplate on this this morning. Abiding.

'In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. '
Paul, in epistle to Romans

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