Section 5
to the disciples on the way to Emmaus that it was necessary for Christ to suffer and enter into His glory (Luke 24:26). It was through His res urrection that He entered into glory.
HIS TRANSFIGURATION
Furthermore, Christ's resurrection was His transfiguration into the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45). He was Christ in the flesh, but He has been transfigured into the pneumatic Christ, the Christ who essentially is the life-giving Spirit. Resurrection was His actual transfiguration. Before His death and resurrection, He was trans figured on the Mount of Transfiguration. How ever, that transfiguration was only temporary. His actual transfiguration was His resurrection, for in resurrection He became the life-giving Spirit, the Spirit who imparts life into us.
THE GERMINATION OF THE NEW CREATION
Christ's resurrection was also the germination of the new creation. Just as His death was the termination of the old creation, so His resurrec tion was the germination of the new creation. What He terminated in His death He germinated in His resurrection. This germination includes us;