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"In Christ our sense of separation is subsumed by Divine love, enabling not just deeper spiritual understanding, but also spiritual union. Union with Christ is a state of being that helps dissolve our demands for air tight answers to the intellectual and emotional conundrums we confront in life and our perplexing experiences of existential pain.

When we say that “Jesus became sin” for the salvation of the world, we mean that Jesus experienced the full terror of being separate from his Abba—the Aramaic term for “daddy.” Jesus couldn’t have imagined this state since his whole life was defined as being one with the Father. Thus, when he was asked to give up his oneness with the Father and become sin—that is, the state of conscious separation from the Father—it’s no wonder he cried out in agony alone in prayer (“If there be any other way”) and from the cross (“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).

Jesus understood the core of what it meant to be human—to feel separate from God—because he experienced it. However, this experience is no longer the sole destiny for the human condition. An interpreter exists to mediate the mystery: the Spirit who awakens us in Christ to the essential interconnectedness that is our birthright way of being with God, our self, one another, and creation."

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