be receptive and responsive. Indeed, the significance of the Light of Christ as the saving/revealing initiative of God is too easily missed for several reasons. First, it cannot be imagined; it must be revealed. Humans live by merit—by judgment—receiving what we deserve, which inevitably is death except for God’s grace.12 Again, this is why no one can have access to the Father except by being drawn by God, whose world-changing initiative Jesus as the Jewish Messiah was and is. God’s saving grace
Page 185