The Divine Irony of the Son of Man

Christ by His very nature is an Ironic Being. We know this, but we often breeze by this concept without thinking twice about it. Of course, He is God and man; He is LORD and Sacrifice. This is well-trod ground, but, there seems to be a much deeper Irony at work in Him. Nowhere is this Divine Irony better shown than in context of the development of the concept of the human-superhuman composite beings. We first first see it in the Nephilim of Genesis 6, who are a sort of perverse type of Christ, and we see a continual evolution of the idea of human-superhuman composite being throughout Scripture until we arrive at seeing how this idea is rectified, fulfilled, and far surpassed in Christ. Also, along the way, we will examine the term Son of Man to aide our overarching discussion of the evolution of the beings that are the topic of this current work.