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261 - Fr. Stephen De Young - The Son Of Man

The Symbolic World

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Is the Son of Man a Solution to the Technical Problem of Agency?

In the ancients, you'll find texts where they'll say, are the gods the creations of men, or vice versa? Like what's the relationship? Because the gods are in the image of man, you could say. And so it seemed to me that the notion of the heavenly man, the son of man, would be a solution to the technical problem of agency above us is that it's near and through human man consciousness. Well, and that's built into, I mean, Hebrew straight out says that the angelic spirits were created to serve us, to minister to us. But this is something we've lost. The devil fell, all the fathers have, you know,

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