it is not the spirit of the man Jesus of Nazareth that makes him the Christ, but that it is the Spiritual-Presence, God in him, that possesses and drives his individual spirit. This insight stands guard against a Jesus-theology which makes the man Jesus the object of Christian faith. This can be done in seemingly orthodox terms, as in Pietism, or in humanist terms, as in theological liberalism. Both distort or disregard the Christian message that it is Jesus as the Christ in whom the New Being has appeared. And they contradict Paul's Spirit-Christology, which emphasizes that "the Lord is the Spirit" and that we do not "know" him according to his historical existence (flesh) longer, but only as the Spirit who is alive and present. This saves Christianity from the danger of a heteronomous subjection to an individual. The Christ is Spirit and not law.