Only Jesus combines finite, infinite elements of existence

Throughout history we have confused the messenger with the message, the creator with the created and the infinite with the finite.
For example, in Roman times imperial law decreed that the people must worship the emperor, who was considered divine. Some Christians would rather die than conform to his heretical allegiance.
Before the Reformation, the pope was considered infallible. The words of the priests took the place of God’s.
Adolf Hitler made a religion out of blurring the distinction between himself and divinity. So did Emperor Hirohito, who moreover was proclaimed to be god incarnate.
Chairman Mao Zedong later made the state an ultimate authority and declared the Infinite abolished, virtually nonexistent.
Concerning the war in Iraq, our news sources tell us that once again this distinction between message and messenger has become blurred by militant extremists doing “jihad” in the name of God.
Of course, we could point out the idolatry made of the American presidency—especially during the Nixon administration—or the idolatry made of white collar capitalists, whose wealth brought them brief sentences in comfortable federal institutions.
We must also mention the rich and famous sports figures and rock stars who have been accorded a status surpassing merely human and verging on the divine.
The distinction between human and divine has been blurred by Jesuit priest and paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin. He argues that man’s consciousness will ultimately evolve into an omega point wherein little or no distinction exists between humanity and the Infinite.
However, Jesus helps me to understand that distinctions are not to be blurred in him. Philippians 2:6-7 says: “He did not think equality with God a thing to be grasped but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant.”
We see that Jesus made his lordship something that could not be ordered, demanded or coerced but won by a love and sacrifice that serves.
The point is that in Jesus of Nazareth we see the finite and the infinite finally merged in a way that fully embraces both divine and human polarities. He is the only true omega point.
To attribute this unique condition to anyone else—be it a political or sports hero—is not only idolatrous but comic. Yet it appears that is the intrinsic flaw of a pluralistic society, one that blinds itself to his centrality and lets others compete for it.
Thus we fall into being an idolatrous people and nation, an American idol in the lowest sense.