McLaren and Christ?

McLaren's view of God, has further ramifications.

His view of Christ must also be in peril. If he has dragged the creator into his creation, merging him with it in the manner of all monist flavours, from Evolution to Animism; he must have a similar parlous view of Christ.

In short, if he doesn't know who God is, he can't know who Christ is.

He cuts God off from the real concrete creation, so Christ can no longer be Creator! (John 1:1-3, Col 1: 16-18 as the most explicit data, but the whole  Colossians passage is relevant: 15-20.).

The Incarnation is the reprise of the creation! The Creation identified God, and thus his Christ; as 'creator' in whose image we are and so gives us our basic identity. The Incarnation is the founding of the Kingdom of God that will be consummated in the New Creation as creature dwells with Creator in eternal fellowship..

Thus, Christ as the Fullness of God embodied (Col 2:8-10) is no stranger to the Cosmos. He is the creator who created in the days of our history. His action in the days contextualizes both the theophanies recorded throughout the OT and the Incarnation as their summation. That is, this is his creation and he is not an alien within it. The Incarnation is the coda on this great biblical theme of God with his people in his image, being their creator. Now in the Incarnation, announced as redeemer as well.

'God with us' in the Incarnation follows as a familial act, a personal event in the same concrete reality as the creation event authored by the same person. This person (God in Christ) first demonstrating his presence and direct connection with the creation by action realized within the terms of the creation he has created (that is a set of defined days that are real in that creation) cohesively with his objective. He now stepping into that creation, again in its terms: in a man. The intimacy of God with us shining forth to us, his image-bearers.

And that's why a real concrete creation as set out directly in Genesis one is more than important, it is pivotal in the most profound way.

McLaren has missed every point the Scriptures make!

Also see A Theological Pivot