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Okay so I think I’ll post just one question (subject line) per thread, so it can be covered greater. That was at least the suggestion given to me on my other read “A few questions about what the Church teaches.”

Why is Christ a person, and not a state of consciousness (as per the New Agers)? That no one can be the Christ, except Jesus alone.
 
Okay so I think I’ll post just one question (subject line) per thread, so it can be covered greater. That was at least the suggestion given to me on my other read “A few questions about what the Church teaches.”

Why is Christ a person, and not a state of consciousness (as per the New Agers)? That no one can be the Christ, except Jesus alone.
Your question engages the Nature and Persons of God. God is a/THE Trinity of Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Person of the Son became Incarnate as the Man Jesus. A book that would be most helpful to you in understanding the Church’s teaching on the Trinity - and why Christ Jesus is Unique - is Frank Sheed’s Theology for Beginners. This book is frequently recommended here for those trying to understand the Church’s teaching on the Trinity and other areas of Catholic fundamentals.
 
Okay so I think I’ll post just one question (subject line) per thread, so it can be covered greater. That was at least the suggestion given to me on my other read “A few questions about what the Church teaches.”

Why is Christ a person, and not a state of consciousness (as per the New Agers)? That no one can be the Christ, except Jesus alone.
  1. God is love
  2. God as such is 3, the lover (the Father), the beloved (the Son), and the love that they share (the Holy Spirit). Christ wasn’t just a person in a state of being the beloved, he was the beloved.
  3. God is 3 also as he is the Father, the Word which is spoken by the Father, which is followed even by nonexistent things when they are commanded to be, and the Holy Spirit which comes from the Father and which works through us.
  4. In accordance with Apostolic Tradition as defined at the councils of First Nicaea and First Constantinople God is 3 persons of 1 essence. These 3 persons are not themselves the essence, but are one essence, totally united and undivided.
 
John 17:23

With me in them and you in me, may they be so perfected in unity that the world will recognise that it was you who sent me and that you have loved them as you have loved me.
 
Maybe explaining a little or giving you more to think about, but here is goes. We today lose a lot of meaning in words that come to us from other languages and older times.
Today when we her the word christ we think only of Jesus. The word comes to us from the greek Christos meaning anointed. Many have been anointed and today we are still anointed. Kings David was anointed all bapitzed and confirmed catholics have been anoited.

But there is only one Savoir only one only Begotten Son of the Father. that is the man Jesus the Christ.
 
Okay so I think I’ll post just one question (subject line) per thread, so it can be covered greater. That was at least the suggestion given to me on my other read “A few questions about what the Church teaches.”

Why is Christ a person, and not a state of consciousness (as per the New Agers)? That no one can be the Christ, except Jesus alone.
Christ became man to save us from our sins, because we are men. It is not a state of consciousness that can show love, it is only humans that can show love authentically. If Christ wasn’t made man for our sake, how can our sin be paid for?

No one else can be the Christ because only Jesus “came down from heaven” and “was with God in the beginning”. Jesus is the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, and the only one who can take away sins is God. Since sinning against God is irreparable save by God’s help, there is nothing we could’ve done to bring ourselves back to God, when considering the dignity of the one who is being offended. Only God could bring us back to himself, and to make satisfaction for our sins and to show his love for us Christ came down from heaven and died for us. It is because no one else could’ve saved us save Christ alone that he alone can be called “Christ”.
 
Okay so I think I’ll post just one question (subject line) per thread, so it can be covered greater. That was at least the suggestion given to me on my other read “A few questions about what the Church teaches.”

Why is Christ a person, and not a state of consciousness (as per the New Agers)? That no one can be the Christ, except Jesus alone.
Here are a few Catholic answers as to what the Catholic Church authentically teaches on the subject.

Christlogy is the scientific study of the person of Jesus Christ and especially the mystery of the union in Christ of the divine and human natures. While Christology had been widely studied since patrisitic times, it was mainly since the Reformation that rival Christologies have arisen in the Western world. Allowing for many variations, the Christology of Lutheranism tends to be Apollinarist, with its strong emphasis on the unity of Christ’s person and its claims (since Luther’s time) that Christ assumed a humanity in the sense that he rarely manifested his divinity. Calvinist or Reformed Christology tends to so stress the difference between the divine and human in Christ as to verge on Nestorianism. Outside these traditions, Protestant Christology so redefines Christ’s divinity that Jesus becomes merely the “Man from Nazereth.” Roman Catholic Christology, as taught by the magisterium, adheres firmly to the doctrine of the early ecumenical councils of Nicea, Constantinople, Ephesus, and Chalcedon.
 
Okay so I think I’ll post just one question (subject line) per thread, so it can be covered greater. That was at least the suggestion given to me on my other read “A few questions about what the Church teaches.”

Why is Christ a person, and not a state of consciousness (as per the New Agers)? That no one can be the Christ, except Jesus alone.
In a sense it is a state of consciousness, or more like a state of being, of ‘putting on the "mind of Christ’:

**The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for,

“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”
But we have the mind of Christ.** 2Cor 10-16
 
Here are a few Catholic answers as to what the Catholic Church authentically teaches on the subject.

Christlogy is the scientific study of the person of Jesus Christ and especially the mystery of the union in Christ of the divine and human natures. While Christology had been widely studied since patrisitic times, it was mainly since the Reformation that rival Christologies have arisen in the Western world. Allowing for many variations, the Christology of Lutheranism tends to be Apollinarist, with its strong emphasis on the unity of Christ’s person and its claims (since Luther’s time) that Christ assumed a humanity in the sense that he rarely manifested his divinity. Calvinist or Reformed Christology tends to so stress the difference between the divine and human in Christ as to verge on Nestorianism. Outside these traditions, Protestant Christology so redefines Christ’s divinity that Jesus becomes merely the “Man from Nazereth.” Roman Catholic Christology, as taught by the magisterium, adheres firmly to the doctrine of the early ecumenical councils of Nicea, Constantinople, Ephesus, and Chalcedon.
I would recommend including your source. For instance, this was taken from catholicculture.org/culture/library/dictionary/index.cfm?id=32527
 
Thanks Boulder,

I grabbed a coffee stained copy of your citation off of my desk. This copy did not list the author. Thank you.
Don’t mention it. I thought the OP might want to read up a little more on the subject. 🙂
 
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