God and Man In The Same Place

"Theism believes there is a God. Christianity believes that God and humanity can coexist in the same place! These are two utterly different proclamations about the nature of the universe. In my experience, most Christians are very good theists who just happen to have named their God Jesus. 

With dualistic minds it is always one or the other - it can never be both. The result is that we still think of ourselves as mere humans trying desperately to become "spiritual", when the Christian revelation was precisely that you are already spiritual ("in God"), and your difficult but necessary task is to learn how to become human.......

It is in our Humanity that we are still so wounded, so needy, so unloving, so self-hating, and so in need of Enlightenment. We seem to have spawned centuries of people trying to be spiritual and religious, whereas our record on basic humaness is rather pitiful."

- Richard Rohr. The Naked Now