The New Testament

Why did the Word choose to become flesh among the Jews and not among any other people? Certainly in order to be understood. From among the people of the Earth only the Jews were capable to grasp the situation and then understand the reasons. His acts could not be correctly appreciated right away, and this is the reason of His rejection. But digging a little into the reasons of this rejection also gives us today the possibility of understanding the true magnitude of His endeavor.

The rejection of Jesus is the last expression of penetration of the social and human spirit in the relation Man-God. His reaction is also the last expression of the fact that the force, as conceived by man, is not the one which harmonizes us with the Nature, but the one that alienates us from Nature. Recall that one of the great questions of those who witnessed the passions of Christ was how come that the Savior couldn’t save Himself:

And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God. (Luke, 23:35)

In this kind of  judgment the human essential condition is plain: if He is indeed the Christ, He must save Himself! Is like justifying the existence of a people, where the force, taken as instrument of destruction, is fully justified and even officially blessed. For there is no other way for that salvation but the purely destructive force. And the verse is categorical in assigning the judgment to „the rulers”. Why? The rulers are the expression of reason in a people. One cannot expect reason from crowds: the crowd is the place where the reason stops. That much knows every politician from the beginnings of the society on Earth. This is why Christ would pray for the crowds: “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do” (Luke, 23:34). „They know not” but the rulers do, and this is why „the rulers also with them derided him”: this is a typical political attitude, designed to attract the crowds.

Politics aside, in hindsight the above excerpt just reflects the dominant idea of all ages, according to which God is almighty by force. This is not the first nor the last time, by any means, when the man sets the seal of law upon invented facts. This leads to catastrophic results. For God never used the force in the way it was meant to be used here, i.e. directly for destroying His creation. As a matter of fact He never used the force for creating the world!

What was really the idea of His attitude? Jesus came on Earth to show the man his true condition. This required, on one hand, the natural relation individual-cosmos and, on the other hand, the creation of a society in concordance with the Nature. As such He came in multiple capacities, both as man and as God. As a man He preached the tolerance because it leads to the naturalization of the human society (sic!). As God He is the Creator, and by becoming flesh he actually became the Creation. Now let’s sit and reason: what really would mean to save Himself? Probably the ensuing destruction wouldn’t mean anything, compared with the fact that, as a Creator, He would deny all of the qualities implied by His presence on Earth: as a man He would show that the tolerance is just a political scam, of no other species than that of the “rulers”, as God He would show that He destroys the creation at will in the manner of idols of Greek mithology. It is thus necessary to see in His resignation not the blind resignation of those idols, whereby the arbitrary of the will is just pushed on another level – that of the almighty fate – but the fact that the force as conceived by man is not a law of Nature. Christ just sealed this idea with the seal made from the primeval matter of essential myths of mankind: his own blood!