2 Corinthians 5:21

“For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (RSV).

Comment:

This statement ties to Paul's earlier (5:18) statement that “in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself.” The Christ is the spiritual Presence of God in each of us. It is incapable of sin, of course, but it must be able to relate to sin—in its literal meaning of error thought—in order to dissolve it. That is the great and loving accomplishment of Jesus Christ. Having attained the perfect expression of his Christ self, he did not remain above the duality and error thought of the human experience. He rather engaged with it to transform it for us so that we, too, can find our own Christ nature and “become the righteousness of God.”

Blessings!

Rev. Ed