some thoughts

ESV Bible Online: Passage: Colossians 2:9

Fulness can mean either of quality, or of quantity. The fullness of God which dwelt in Christ was his qualitative fullness, not his quantitative fullness. For Christ, who is all God yet not all of God, died at Calvary. But God didn’t die. There is more (in quantity) of God than Jesus. There is the Father, and there is the Holy Spirit. They did not die, but Jesus–in whom all the fullness dwells–did die.

These are crude terms, and an even cruder explanation, but I think it sheds a bit of light on the idea. But we should be ok with the fact that we can neither fully understand nor fully explain exactly what transpired on the cross. What happened was something infinite, eternal, magnificent. Our finite, obscured-view, unmagnificent minds cannot yet grasp it: “for we see in part…”

Just a thought, inspired as I read Bonhoeffer’s chapter on The Body of Christ, in Cost.