Mankind was never "in" danger, but "out of union"

The whole idea of Christ being revealed was so that man would see the very love of God for them as the one true life of God within. It was not about forgiving man in order to love him, but about loving man in order for man to realize God's life within himself. However, this was not given to man as a gift of man's good works, but given as a gift based on God's doing. So that man would know and behold the Christ in himself and all others. For this was God's intent to communicate Himself to man, so that in Him this self-communicating love which is His divine nature would always be present. Christianity teaches that Jesus became man to save mankind. But mankind was never in danger, but "out of union". Jesus came with the sole purpose to show man that he's never been separate from God. But that nothing could separate man from this love of God, which in actuality was and will always be the Life of God within man. It was only by seeing the death of Jesus, that man would see his own birth in God. It was only by seeing the burial of Jesus that man would see his own place in God. And it was only by seeing the resurrection of Jesus that man would see that God's salvation was never about saving man, but that God always loved man and that Christ is and forever will be God's final Word within man. This love shows the absolute, infinite and holy presence of God which is the freedom Jesus spoke of -- and this is eternal life. John. 1 :14 clearly shows and proves that Jesus is the Son of God, and the incarnation of the Word makes God personally and visibly present to mankind. You see, what makes the incarnation such a mystery, is because of the possibility of God's self-communication to re-translate everything "known about" and "known" in His Kingdom, to allow mankind to understand that the nature of God's love has always been God's life within man. Not only that, but that very life within man is God.

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