Now this isn't the language of the scientist. It's a spiritual insight in everyday language, that wearing the likeness of Adam, made of dust, we are united in a common humanity. Yet now what the scientists are confirming through their studies in the genome project is that all life is a unity. The headlines put it sharply and simply, humans have only twice as many genes as a fruit-fly and there may be greater diversity within African people than between Africans and Caucasians. Biologically there's no such thing as race.
Life is a unity.
And that common humanity was shared by Jesus. He was born, he lived and died, one of us. For all his wisdom, all his virtue, all he revealed about God, he was a creature of dust. Astonishingly, most of his actual genes were the same as ours. Yet, in his death, God was there, in action, for us.