Bernadette Roberts
The early Church Fathers, along with Paul, held that with the advent of Christ, man was no longer held down by Adam’s sin, but could now go forward to fulfill God’s original plan. They believed the man Jesus was born in a perfect state of oneness with God, and this same oneness was now within the reach of every human being.
As God’s archetypal plan, 'Christ', however, was not some Platonic ‘idea’ in God’s mind, on the contrary, this archetype is the living reality God not only carried out with the Incarnation, but continues to carry out in the life of every human being. Nothing idealistic about this plan, on the contrary, this is the Spirit carrying out God’s transforming plan in every human being, a plan only God can fulfill and no man can bring about of himself.
The Real Christ, chapter: Incarnation
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