The transcendence of the otherness


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By now there is a new relationship between God and the mankind, because the separation between the earth and the sky, between the creator and the creature, became communion thanks to Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God. “The heavens are the heavens of the Lord, but the earth he has given to men” (Psalms 115:16) sang the psalmist, but now this two realities join in Jesus Christ: as a matter of fact he descended from heaven to earth, he was in the form of God (Philippians 2:6) and he clothed himself in human and mortal flesh (John 1:14), in this human reality made up of a body, a psyche and a soul he suffered to death, he rose from the dead and he ascended to heaven in the flesh. Now “at the right hand of the Father,” i.e. in the intimacy of God’s life, there is a body of a man because in Christ heavens descended on earth and earth ascended into heaven. Jesus was really both the son of God and the son of man, able to be the Emmanuel for us, the God-with-us.