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Incarnation: What Does It Means To Be Human?

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Jesus, Mary, and the Church are all essential people in the New Testament who help to teach humanity about being human. Being human and what it means to be human can be a difficult concept to understand and also to actually live in everyday life. Once the idea is understood humanity must then learn live it. To understand what it means to be human is one step in the right direction; however, as devoted Catholics it crucial to take it one step further and live out how to be human according to Jesus, Mary, and the Church. Jesus in particular helps us to understand what it means to be human through His Incarnation, His suffering, death, and resurrection and through the birth of the Church which was born from Him, all of which is by the virtue of love. …show more content…

This is known according to John’s account which states “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). Before Jesus, God sent prophets, but then God sent his only son to come down to earth and become apart of humanity. Jesus’ Incarnation assisted mankind in understanding the creation of matter. Catholics learn to believe that God created matter to be good, therefore He did it out of love, not spite or anger. The heresy, Gnosticism, is the belief that matter is bad. The Incarnation directly rejects the idea of evil matter since Jesus took on flesh, flesh is matter, Jesus is good, and His goodness was sent by a loving God. God’s eternal love is immensely displayed through the Incarnation of Jesus

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