Theology Of Paul

THEOLOGY OF PAUL
M.M.NINAN
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The multiworld interpretation will provide some additional insight
Adam Kadmon is a phrase meaning "Primal Man" or the “First Man” who extends into all dimensions of existence
with Kether as the Crown of Creation. The same concept was transmitted through Apostle Thomas to Indian
Christianity which later appears in the Purusha Suktha and in the Isavasya Upanishad.. Adam Kadamon is the
Manifest Absolute itself, the eternal 'Adam Soul', the “Primeval Soul” that contained all human souls and in
fact all sentient existences. He extends into all the dimensions even beyond the divine into the unknown
dimensions of Ein Sof. The appearance of Primal Man was itself was an act of kenosis.
“God "withdraws himself from himself to himself" in order to make creation possible. His creative activity outwards
is preceded by this humble divine self-restriction. In this sense God's self-humiliation does not begin merely with
creation, inasmuch as God commits himself to this world: it begins beforehand, and is the presupposition that
makes creation possible. God's creative love is grounded in his humble, self-humiliating love. This self-restricting
love is the beginning of that self-emptying of God that Philippians 2 sees as the divine mystery of the Messiah.
Even in order to create heaven and earth, God emptied himself of all his all-plenishing [i.e., pervasive]
omnipotence, and as Creator took upon himself the form of a servant.” Jürgen Moltmann God in Creation (1985)
(p. 88)
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