Why do I think the Word and God don’t transcend culture? 

Because I’ve seen it with my own eyes. Christianity in Asia is foreign and strange. It’s a seldom thought about concept which is weird to most Chinese people. (Almost as how you might think of Buddhism). 

If Christianity could truly rise above culture, then why hasn’t it? Why does Asia still see Jesus as foreign and unusual. I would argue it’s for the same reason we still see buddhism as odd. Because the society we have grown up in has forced us to view it through a lens of Westernized thinking. It’s no fault of ours that we see Christianity as normal and Buddhism as odd. That’s just the outcome of what culture we were born into. We could just as well be Chinese people discussing cultural identity and its affect on various asian traditions right now.