So, I had to post this becase it has long been one of my favorite excerpts by Soren Kierkegaard. Jesus wasn't living in jest. He really meant what he said and did.
"Since we found that the union between man and God could not be brought about by an elevation it must be attempted by a descent. Let the learner be x. In this x we must include the lowliest… In order that the union may be brought about, God must therefore become the equal of such an one, and so he will appear in the likeness of the humblest. For this is the unfathomable nature of love, that it desires equality with the beloved, not in jest merely, but in earnest and truth. To sustain the heavens and the earth by the fiat of his omnipotent word, so that if this word were withdrawn for the fraction of a second the universe would be plunged into chaos – how light a task compared with bearing the burden that mankind may take offense, when one has been constrained by love to become its savior!"
Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments
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