Probably, I guess.

I get the sense that cause and effect in the ‘real world’ (the spiritual world) don’t necessarily work along our world’s timeline; that causes and effects can be widely separated in time and space. So the same process that caused Christ to be woven into the fabric of the universe as Jesus also weaves a little bit of Him into all of us, I think; or at least, it does if we listen to His voice.

The other sense I get is that Jesus somehow *represents* all of humankind (and perhaps non-human life too) – as if like one of those pictures where each little dot is itself a photograph, His face is made up of our individual lives (the real, Christ-like part of them); and yet He’s also a single, real person. I think it works something like that; so that when we look at Him, we’re actually also looking at the best parts of ourselves. Because it’s His nature to give away everything that’s His, and keep nothing of His own.

The part that’s really hard to understand is, if this is really real, and Jesus *is* the promised Christ – the physical manifestation of the Godhead – as Christianity claims, why 2000 years after His birth we seem to be still largely wandering around in the darkness, ignorant of what His presence must really be. If after His resurrection He’s not just a cosmic force, but a real person, like Mary and all the saints, really out there and occasionally popping up in history to do serious miracles, and in the meantime… praying for us? Holding back the darkness? Or running other mysterious errands? … how come we’ve still got wars, and such? How come there wasn’t a huge blaze of light in AD 33 and instant salvation/enlightenment across the planet? Why do historical processes seem to keep churning along like they did a thousand years earlier, and then the slow ramp up through the fall of Rome and the rise of Europe, ships, gunpowder, WW2, nukes, electronics? Where does the special power of Christ fit in against the historical/technological curve? Was it literally Jesus or one of his disciples who helped us invent the transistor and TCP/IP? Or is he working on something even stranger?