On the Incarnation

In the Beginning: At the beginning of the universe. God created heaven and earth in six days and rested on the seventh. During those six days God spoke to the darkness and created the world, brought forth light, created the sky, land and animals and plants to inhabit them. However, even during this creation he was contemplating the creation of a being made in his own image.

The Lord God created man in his own image. He used the dust from the ground and molded it to create the first ever human, Adam. The

He wanted to build creatures that are capable of recognizing him, serving and loving him and this is when the world was created. And he created this to show the unity of his essence through his unity in his works. God “wanted to choose a subject to be a work of his own, which was unique, singular and unlike any other; rare and surpassing all the other works of his hands.” (pg 111). This subject would have a perfect relationship with God and a perfect relationship with his own unity. This is all known as the mystery of the Incarnation. Out of all the different natures God choose human nature to receive his greatness. He chose only one and that is the “Son of God”. Jesus is stated as a world. We adore in Jesus the “unity of a divine person” who exists in two natures and who serves the supreme unity of the divine

Hebrews 1:2-3 says, “But in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven” (NIV). In an article in The Christian Crier, author Jack Wellman gives a great description of Jesus.

He then made dry land to contrast with the waters and it was called Earth. He called the waters seas. Then he created vegetation. This marked the 3rd day.

“We were the purpose of this embodiment, and for our salvation he so loved human beings as to come to be an appear in a human body.” (Athanasius, P.53) Athanasius’s argument can be viewed as a divine plan for redemption. Athanasius poses a thought-provoking question in the dilemma regarding life and death. Human beings, created in the image of God, were being consumed by sin.

Although it was both unexpected by the Jews and unimaginable by man, the Incarnation appropriately reveals the attributes of goodness, omnipotence, justice, mercy, and wisdom. In His goodness, God created beings other than Himself in order to communicate His goodness. However, man sinned and cut himself off from the Creator. In order to counter man’s sin, God gave His only begotten Son a human nature, “that the world may be saved by Him.” The Incarnation is appropriate with respect to God’s omnipotence because the union of humanity and divinity manifests God’s almighty power better than any miracle. In the Hypostatic Union, the glory of divinity did not annihilate humanity, nor did the taking on of human nature destroy the divinity.

Irenaeus on the Trinity: "The Church, though dispersed throughout the whole world, even to the ends of the earth, has received from the apostles and their disciples this faith: . . . one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them; and in one Christ Jesus, the Son of God, who became incarnate for our salvation; and in the Holy Spirit, who proclaimed through the prophets the dispensations of God, and the advents, and the birth from a virgin, and the passion, and the resurrection from the dead, and the ascension into heaven in the flesh of the beloved Christ Jesus, our Lord, and His manifestation from heaven in the glory of the Father ‘to gather all things in

The first idea comes from the article What Does the Word ‘Incarnation’ Mean. The article states that the “church calls the incarnation the fact that the Son of God assumed a human nature in order to accomplish our salvation in it (CCC 461)” (WDWIM). It also stated that most of the arguments of the first five centuries of the

Origin claims that, “…there was born the God-man, that ‘substance’ being the connecting link which could assume a body without denying its own nature” (225). Christ is God’s way of connecting to His creation, He could not come in whatever, incomprehensible form He has, He must send a human form who is divine like Him, but also human, in order to interact with the human

The Incarnation of Christ starts the fabulous adventure of deity and the redemptive works of Christ and through his birth, death, resurrection and his plan of salvation for man. The natural service of our magnificent Savior and through his passing, it made accessible to man the eminent arrangement of salvation and show his redemptive acts too. Our brilliant Savior reminds He and God are one (John 10:30) and through the various of scriptural guarantees uncovers that God and Jesus live in one human vessel and this happen through the virgin birth; truly God utilized the womb of a virgin by the name Mary to do this chronicled and powerful occasion. This pregnancy was an act of divine invention, particularly when her conception was obtained without a human father’s

The Trinity is the leader in making the church one. As Lumen Gentium claims, “the universal church is seen to be a people made one by the unity of the Father, the Son, and the holy Spirit,” (Lumen Gentium, 4). Yet, each part of the Trinity plays a specific role in the unity. First, God the Father calls us to be a part of His church. “All the just from the time of Adam, ‘from Abel, the just one, to the last of the elect’ will be gathered together with the Father in the universal church,” (Lumen Gentium, 2). God the Father allows the entire church to have a relationship with Him, and brings people together through his love. In addition, The Father sent His Son to bring the kingdom of God to Earth. The Church’s foundation is the Son of God. Lumen Gentium goes on to say, “All are called to this union with Christ, who is the light of the world, from whom we come, through whom we live, and towards whom we direct our lives,” (Lumen Gentium, 3). Therefore as the church, unity is formed by following and devoting our lives to Jesus Christ, and it

Incarnation is the doctrine that the second person of the Trinity assumed human form in the person of Jesus Christ and is completely both God and man. How do we know that Jesus was in fact God? Throughout the Gospel of John, Jesus proves His deity through the many miracles He performed and the seven “I Am” statements He declares. In this lesson to high school students, I will provide a short description of the seven “I Am” statements, the events surrounding statements, how each statement relates to God as revealed in the Old Testament, and how the statements reveal the deity of Christ.

The Trinity is the theological idea that The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit exist as three persons under one Godhead. All three are God, but are all three different from each other. Each one is equally holy and have been in existence for all of eternity. The idea was formulated during the fourth century at the councils of Nicaea and Constantinople. The evidence for the Trinity can be found in the Bible, but is never clearly stated.

“…Trinity asserts that God is one essence but three persons. The formula ‘three persons in one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit’ is not really about the mathematics. Rather, it means that God, the creator of the universe, can at the same time be present in the life of Jesus and in all things in the