Let us suppose that the Son dwells in flesh, dies to flesh, rises in Spirit, all to prepare a new humanity to receive the radiance of light within. What might be wrong with that?
One objection might be: Why does God need time to prepare a body? As a student, Stephen Long, recently pointed out to me, there is a thread of Greek philosophy that implies that if God is capable of doing something He must do it, and must do it immediately.
That doesn’t seem a biblical notion. God created temporal movement and rhythm, and He takes His own work seriously. He takes time because He made time.
He always has: Preparing a body through a time of incarnation is just what we expect from a God who waited several millennia to become incarnate in the first place.
