“ah, this old crazy old stinking bore is doing it again”

I know, I'm boring, and I know that hardly anyone pays attention to what I say - and I am grateful that, maybe, a few people will, at least, glance at these lines I write and stop for a second or two before they say, "ah, this old crazy old stinking bore is doing it again." Guys... tomorrow we are celebrating the Nativity of Jesus Christ. I know, many religions claimed that they understood the concept of "Avatara," the bodily appearance of the God of universe in front of the faithful. Yet, I do not think that any religion has, at any time, claimed that the "Avatara" of God WAS GOD, AND that He became FULLY MAN, and that He "emptied" Himself (ἀλλ᾽ ἑαυτὸν ἐκένωσε
μορφὴν δούλου λαβών) (Phil. 2:7) to the condition when He suffered from hunger, thirst, heat, cold, pain inflicted by blows of fists or sticks or whips, anxiety, despair, even the feeling of complete abandonness by everything He believed in for all of His life, and of being lowered to Hell, "Sheol," the lowest of the low of any possible notion of mere existence. Yet, He, descending as low as it could be, overcame death, trumpled it, destroyed it to such an extent that now EVERYONE who as much as give a split second of thought about all this and say, "YEAH!" - will live forever! The Person of Jesus Christ, whose Nativity (or - less precisely - Incarnation) we celebrate tomorrow, is as much God as God is, and as much human as everyone of us is, except for sin. And we are called to be like Him, and the ONLY thing that is required of us to be like Him is to acknowledge in our hearts that He is perfect, and we aren't (yet), but we sincerely want to be as perfect as He is, and thus to be admitted to His table and spend the eternity with hi. How simplier can this be...

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