The Incarnation of Christ is not only a historical event; it is an ongoing event. Each time the miracle of the New Birth takes place another Child of God is born. The Son of God became the Christ by becoming man; we become Christians by the Son of God becoming man in us. (see Luke 17:21; John 14:17-23, 15:1-5, 17:22-26; Rom. 8:10; 1 Cor. 3:16, 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16; Gal. 2:20, 4:19; Eph. 2:22, 3:17; Col. 1:27; 1 John 4:4)
Jesus did not come to establish a religion; He came to be the Firstborn of a new race. (Romans 8:29)
Like us, Jacob Boehme lived in an age of religious sham, but found his way to the Truth.
"When in my resolved zeal I gave so hard an assault, storm, and onset upon God and upon all the gates of hell, as if I had more reserves of virtue and power ready, with a resolution to hazard my life upon it, suddenly my spirit did break through the gates of hell, even into the innermost moving of the Deity, and there I was embraced in love as a bridegroom embraces his dearly beloved bride. The greatness of the triumphing that was in my spirit I cannot express either in speaking or writing; neither can it be compared to any thing but that wherein life is generated in the midst of death. It is like the resurrection from the dead."