The 6th Day of Christmas: The Incarnation

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What did it mean that God became human?
...or better yet, WHY would God become human?
These have been questions pondered for centuries (especially by early church writers like Athanasius—see quotes below) but the answer has always been something like:
  • ...because God wanted to.
  • ….because God wanted to bring salvation and hope and healing to a broken and sinful world.
  • ...because God wanted to show us how we should live.

The reality is that it happened.
In Jesus, the incarnation happened.
What does it mean for YOUR life?

 
Quotes from Athanasius’ “On the Incarnation”  
(Fully Human and Fully Divine: Jesus is the Word of God) 

      • "The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension- above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth , in the breadth; throughout the World."
         
      • "His body was for Him not a limitation, but an instrument, so that He was both in it and in all things, and outside all things, resting in the Father above. At one and the same time- this is the wonder - as man He was an human life, and as Word He was sustaining the life of the universe, and as Son He was in constant union with the Father"


      •  "Invisible in Himself, He is known from the works of creation; so also, when His Godhead is veiled in human nature, His bodily acts still declare HIm to be not man only, but the Power and Word of God"

      • "…through this Union of the Immortal Son of God with our human nature all men were clothed with incorruption in the promise of the resurrection."



 

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