Transformed INTO Christ

 Bernadette Roberts

Evidently, some people think Paul’s saying “In Christ there are no distinction between male and female” refers solely to some form of social equality. That transformation into Christ implies Christ is genderless, and that as Christ, we too will be genderless, would not sit well with those for whom Christ is a male man. Perhaps this is why the Christian belief that salvation consists in being “transformed” into Christ is rarely mentioned – women just don’t fit the visual mold. Today, at best, it is only said we are transformed in Christ, never into Christ, yet in Christ what are we transformed into if not Christ? My impression is that Church leaders, theologians and writers, water down and eliminate anything profoundly spiritual or mystical – because they don’t get it themselves and don’t want others to get what they don’t get.

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