The Gospel of Thomas: A Catholic Perspective 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 nature of 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 own virtue, that person now exists within Christ.