I've written that I think that Christ is like the character of the universe. That the Son of the Trinity is the Universe taken as a whole, the character of the selfhood of creation. It is like the universe has a self and that self is itself God. It is the Father pouring Himself into physical reality. Now a thing is more than the some of its parts. To attribute properties of parts to properties of the whole is to commit the fallacy of composition. The fact that parts of the universe are sinful and evil does not mean that The Son is sinful and evil. Evil is like a disease in the body of the Son, taken on willingly so the universe can be more than an undifferentiated oneness...so that individual things can have room to live and grow.
Jesus Christ is the Son made Incarnate in HUMAN flesh. But the Incarnation is not only a human event, the whole of creation is God Incarnate, I think. Jesus is the human instantiation of a cosmic reality, the reality of God become physical. This is just the natural outgrowth of early Christian beliefs about the Logos and Jesus as the Logos become flesh. My own book of the Trinity teases these ideas out in more detail.
It is the Son in whom we live and move and have our being. The Father is that which is becoming incarnated in the Son. Always becoming Incarnated, forever in a process of Incarnation, for the infinite pouring into the finite would have this kind of appearance. The Holy Spirit is the link between the two, it is the act of the Father becoming the Son. The Father is the character, the Universe the Character expressed, Jesus that expressed character in a particular form, completed in human flesh. These are just the sketches of ideas. But I think there is something to them.
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