Kierkegaard, Fragments 4-5

I am incredibly intrigued and engaged by Kierkegaard's discussion on why God must have become man.  Why, to use his analogy, the King could not simply send his most honorable man in his stead. Why?  Why does this not satisfy the King? Kierkegaards says that the God knew that "between man and man the Socratic relationship is the highest and truest." I was apparently pretty deeply mistaken in my assessment of the Socratic role in Kierkegaard's tale.  I was under the impression that under this system, the Socratic method had been thrown off. It looks as if I was wrong, however, as he says man and man share this relationship.

The Socratic relationship, however, can't bring one to knowledge of the truth. Kierkegaard says "if God had not come himself, all the relations would have remained on the Socratic level; we would not have had the Moment, and we would have lost the Paradox." Kierkegaard thinks that the Teacher had to give man the condition to see the truth, namely, Himself. Without the condition to see the truth, man could never arrive at the truth through any line of Socratic questioning.  I am less concerned with this, the Paradox, and more concerned with the role of the Socratic questioning between two who have been given the condition.

Once two have been given the condition to see the truth and accept that truth, what role does the Socratic play? Socrates' whole idea on the Socratic method is rooted in the pre-existence of the Soul.  The only way I can understand this idea working is in a homeostatic, ecclesiastical manner.  After thinking it out, it seems that the role of the church is to remind one another of the Gospel of Christ (i.e. the Truth). The only way we can do this is if we've been given the condition to see the truth and accepted that truth.  Somehow, be it homeostasis or otherwise, we are united with Christ in our 'salvation'. The only way I can see the Socratic working man to man after the Moment is if, through faith in Christ, we are able to draw forth knowledge from one another by way of our union with Christ. I am confuse what role the Socratic plays between believers.  Perhaps, the Socratic has no role in Salvation but every role in other types of knowledge, whereas the Teacher only deals with salvific truth.