A Maximum Understanding of the Body of Christ by M. C. Ingraham - HTML preview

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The destiny of every member of the body of Christ is divinization, (CCC 398). The human Jesus is no exception. Jesus (who is the human nature of God), is now fully divine. Jesus is now fully divine and has no contact with sin. The human nature of the Son of God is now the ongoing Christ on earth―that’s us. God relies on the ongoing Christ to continue the redemptive mediation of sin into virtue, so that new members may be incorporated into the body of Christ. The one person of Christ is made of many individual members. Members each have a particular function, Jesus is the head directing the work of the members who now remediate sin into virtue. When the person of Christ (body of Christ) makes someone’s sin into his virtue, that person now exists within Christ.

The sacrifice of Jesus on the cross has a timeless element, and its remediation of sin into virtue is still effected. Jesus and all those in Heaven may not take on additional sin, but the sacrifice and remediation of all members of the body of Christ is propagated through time, within creation. In this life we mistakenly assume time to be the core of an act, but in reality virtue is its core. Time is an outlying attribute, and the virtue of an act is not limited by time. The underlying spiritual framework of our created world is more affected by an act then by its particular time of occurrence.