I agree that if we work an analogy, any analogy too hard, try to know all there is to know at once, one or more elements will slip away (theological uncertainty?). And if we limit ourselves to knowing Christ only through the now dusty lenses of biblical authors writing from within cultures we’ll never fully know, we’re settling.

Just like people of faith in all ages, we are somehow obliged to make sense of Jesus in terms of our culture. It’s all we have. It is a lot harder, and it demands more of us, but hey, that’s the point. And if we can’t do that, maybe we don’t know as much as we thought.