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“[Jesus] has definitely once and for all made God contextual.”
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The statement says that Jesus gives the idea of God a definite, concrete context. Instead of treating God as an entirely abstract concept, it presents God as understood through Jesus. “Once and for all” adds a sense of finality: this contextual meaning is described as permanently established.
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