alanbwt on Nostr: “In the beginning, there was God who created the world. But through the evil one, ...

“In the beginning, there was God who created the world. But through the evil one, and through the fall of man, the world fell away from the perfection in which he made it. To restore it to that perfection, God the Son himself entered into the world and became man in the historical Jesus of Nazareth, and took upon himself all the tragedy, all the evil, and all the suffering of the world in the act of being crucified. And in doing this, he, as it were, united the divine nature and the divine power with death itself, in such a way as to transform death. He rose from the dead and founded a church. Note this. He founded a community, and this community has as its purpose, as it were, the bringing together of the whole universe back to the sovereignty of God. So, it is a historical religion, looking for its fulfillment in the course of time. But in the end, its objective is to put God, or to acknowledge God rather than put him, as ruler of the universe.”

— Alan Watts, Buddhism and Christianity