Through Jesus, that man of Nazareth, The Godhead physically invaded the history of humanity in a fashion that cannot be ignored. The purpose of the Godhead in this act was the continuation of the process of evolving us into the beings It created us to become.
Through this Jesus, we learn that our ability to have a personal relationship with the Godhead is not based on heritage or genealogy. This ability doesn't happen because we follow an arbitrary set of rules. This ability is not based on our willingness to follow a proscribed "method of salvation" beginning with admitting that we are reprobate and totally unacceptable in the eyes of God. Through this man-Jesus, we learn that we can have a personal relationship with the Godhead by having the faith that This Godhead desires such a relationship with us, and by availing ourselves to this very same Godhead. Through this man-Jesus, we also learn that cultivating such a relationship with the Godhead will change us, that we will become more human, or more like what the Godhead created us to be.
As discussed before, the Cross of Christ informs us that the only sin that needs to be dealt with before we can approach The Godhead is the sin of believing that we are not good enough for the Godhead. The Cross of Christ teaches us that our sin does not limit the Godhead. Instead, the sin of this false belief limits us. The Cross of Christ also teaches us that The Godhead, who created all things, including death, is more powerful than death. It teaches us that death does not end our relationship with the Godhead, but that instead, physical death is the means that we, in the in-between stages of humanity's creation, can individually experience the completion of that creation process.
In this Jesus, the man of Nazareth, The Godhead met with humankind face to face. How this was accomplished, I do not totally understand, nor do I believe that I will ever understand until I move over to the other side. I do know that the ancient Christians attempted to explain it through stories of a Virgin birth and fertilization by the holy spirit. While I can understand their attempt to explain the unexplainable, and while I can appreciate the spiritual truth behind that explanation, which appeared logical to them, I relegate that explanation to the same category as the explanation of evil through the story of the fall, or the Greek story of Pandora's box.
I do not believe that the Godhead needs to resort to the spectacular in order to accomplish It's purposes. The miracle of birth occurs through scientifically explainable events. The miracle of spiritual regeneration, the miracle of spiritual completion can both be explained just as easily and occur just simply. Yet, these miracles have a much greater consequence than parting waters, causing the sun to stand still, causing an ax to float, or willing sperm, carrying the "genetic material" of a spiritual being, to materialize in the womb of a virgin woman.
The Godhead revealed itself through the person of Jesus of Nazareth in a manner that is unequaled in Western history, and (I believe) in all of history. I do not need stories of spectacular intervention in the human reproductive process to believe this. I can believe this because I do believe that I have experienced that person, the Christ who once was Jesus of Nazareth, in my own life.
