the story of jesus: theology 101

So God said, "I'm gonna shoot right in there and try that out myself." Like all of us circling around out there in the archetypal void, desiring and waiting for our opportunity to become a little more firm in our matter, he chose his mama and his birth family. Bingo! He was born as Jesus in a little dinky town from nowhere. He went through the whole of existence, from being squeezed through the birth canal to pain and suffering to joy and laughter to getting whacked by the government after being told to shut up but he wouldn't do it. He could build a one-match fire, hiked around a lot, took a boat here and there, slept out of doors, visited friends, said a bunch of things that folk are still trying to understand, was kind of an outlaw, ate food, drank wine, pooped and peed, and "was like as we are, yet without sin." And what is this sin thing but separation from God? And God embodying could not and would not be separate from God. He jumped right in here along with the rest of us and gave it a whirl. Now that kind of God I really really like! And then he took off, zoom into the skies, saying I'm gonna go fix up a place for you, for the capacious, for all who have the capacity, the room for lovingkindness and openness and generosity, all of which come from nowhere but the Big Dude himself. And that's the way it went and that's the way it goes.