Solitary Soul

JESUS – THE MAN (PART 1) Mario D’Couto Christian doctrine teaches that our Lord was fully human and fully divine. While a lot has been said about His divinity, it would be worth understanding and exploring His humanity which is what I intend to bring out in this article. The coming of God’s Son to earth is an event of such immensity that God willed to prepare it for over centuries. He makes everything converge on Christ: all the rituals and sacrifices, figures and symbols of the “First Covenant.” But yet as scripture affirms that He took up on Himself, our slave-like condition, He became like us in all things except sin. Our Lord was born in a humble stable into a poor family. Jesus circumcision on the 8 th day after His birth, is the sign of the incorporation into Abraham’s descendants, into the people of the covenant. It is the sign of His submission to the law and His deputation to Israel’s worship, in which He will participate throughout His life. During the ...

JESUS – THE MAN (PART 2) Mario D’Couto             It could very well happen that Our Lord could have saved the world with a sigh or a blink of an eye or some other way for He was God after all. But, as it is said that the best way to teach is through example, Christ took upon Himself our slave-like condition. Part of this was already dealt with in the previous section. In this part, I wish to elaborate and penetrate deeper into understanding Christ’s humanity.             To begin with, Christ is not God in fancy dress. He has showed with us, in His sinlessness, the condition of an unredeemed world. This is why, He reached out, especially toward the end, to the ‘other world,’ this is why He longed to go home to His Father, to put off this present condition of the flesh in which He humbly walked for our sake. It would seem legitimate to depict Christ in our teachin...