After the Pope’s recent remarks about salvation this quote was a nice counterpoint. Jesus is not our example. We cannot imitate Him because no one is good except God.
Jesus Christ is not just a prototype, example, or even the first Christian. He did more than open up a path that we can follow into the consummation. Rather, he is the only victor over sin and death, the only human being who secured the beginning of the new creation. We share in it because we are united to him, not because we cooperate in a process of grace-empowered deification. We will be everything he is in his humanity because he has done everything for us in our humanity.
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