Im happy that it does, thank you. I can write and have written about the purpose and point of Jesus Christ. I ask Trinitarians in this forum to profile what Jesus is about and what his final aim is, but none of you have answered.
It is very simple:
- God, a Spirit, creates a physical world with Fish, animals, and other creatures and everything is rosey-cosey
- God creates a creature (‘Man’) that is a physical image of himself to rule over the animals
- The first created physical Being is given a personal name that is also a title of his species of creature: ‘Adam’ (Hebrew for Man). It kinda just works, doesn’t it!!
- Adam is initially totally dedicated to following his Father (‘Creator’) and Master (‘Lord’) making him the very definition of a
SON OF GOD (Luke 3:38). But Adam sins and loses his position as Son of God. God is unhappy and decides mankind should be destroyed but changes his mind when he finds at least one man who is Holy in his sight. God wipes out all humans but this man and his family
- But this salvation comes with a price: That a fully wholly and totally unblemished human should die in sacred sacrifice for the sin that Adam, the first man, brought to the world: Mankind will still die, in SPIRIT, unless such a sacred sacrifice is carried out. The seriousness of this act is to be played out using a meek and unblemished LAMB as the sacrificial offering. In addition, a ceremonial touching of a goat is to be used to act as a ‘Washing Away of a persons sin’ - a ‘Scape Goat’, a Baptism. The goat is loosed into the wilderness where it dies - carrying, symbolically, the sins of those who touched it
- Throughout the ages of the Hebrews / Israelite / Jews, the Almighty sought such an ‘Unblemished Lamb’ and/or ‘Scape Goat’ bug none was found. Thd nearest was the man, David, wherein God said, ‘I have found my David’.. but David later went on to sin.
- But God had said that [the] Satan who caused Adam to sin, would be destroyed by one from mankind (The Seed of a Woman... you might have expected here to say, ‘Seed of a man’. But the prior saying is absolutely necessary - see the point of ‘Mary’ later!)
- God gave time but no one was found. So God created a SECOND ‘ADAM’... No other ‘Adam’ is ever to be created so this second Adam is also the ‘LAST ADAM’. And why? Because Adam was created, not from the seed of Male parent but by the power of the Holy Spirit of God
- So, ‘in the fullness of time’, God put into motion the creation of this LAST ADAM. Mary, a virgin of Godly devotion was chosen as the vessel with the SEED which was ENLIVENED by the Holy Spirit (Remember that God blew the breath into the INERT BODY of the first Adam to ENLIVEN it : ‘And the Man
BECAME a
LIVING SOUL.) So also, the inert seed of Mary:
- ‘The Holy Spirit shall overshadow you and the child to be born WILL BE HOLY, and SHALL BE CALLED The Son of the most high [God]’
You duly note that the title, Son of the God most high, is emphatic FUTURE (‘Shall be’).
- This child, an unblemished snd Holy human Being, is given the name, ‘Jesus’, which is only our English name, because it is really, ‘Joshua’ (but that’s a whole other story) but BOTH NAMES mean, ‘Saviour of his people’ (‘For he shall save his people’)
- Jesus lives an exemplary life with his ‘parents’ until ‘his time’ is reached whereupon he seeks out his cousin, John the Baptist. You know John...
- Jesus is BAPTISED WITH WATER by John
- Almighty God, the Father, then thunders from Heaven to heap praises and Honor on this man, Jesus: ‘This is my Son in whom I am well pleased’, enthuses God...
- God then ANOINTS (a SETTING ASIDE) Jesus with HIS HOLY SPIRIT to symbolise his future roll as KING over Creation and also HIGH PRIEST to GOD. Prrsons of worthy note we’re always anointed with special concoction of oils held and used only by a prophet of God as this setting aside for offices as Priests and kings so the Jews should have been well acquainted with this action. The fact that Jesus’ anointment was with the holiest of ‘oils’, the oil of gladness, should have alerted them to the prophecy of the coming Saviour
(e.o.p1)