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Dec 10, 2020 · Now God takes up residence among his people in the incarnate Word, Jesus Christ (cf. John 1:17). Thus, the coming of Christ fulfills the Old Testament symbolism for God’s dwelling with man in the tabernacle and the temple.
- The Dawning of Indestructible Joy
December 11: The Celebration of God’s Love (John 3:16)...
- Marcus Peter Johnson
Marcus Peter Johnson (PhD, University of Toronto) is...
- The First Days of Jesus
The birth of Jesus stands as a pivotal moment in the history...
- John Clark
John C. Clark (PhD, University of Toronto) is associate...
- The Dawning of Indestructible Joy
- What Is The Incarnation?
- How Do We Know Jesus Is God Incarnate?
- Why Did God Put on Flesh?
- Why Is The Cross So Important?
The incarnation means that Jesus, who was God already as part of the Trinity, became human and stepped into the world we know. Some theologians argue that when Genesis 18 describes God appearing to Abraham and Sarah to tell them that they will have a son, this is a “pre-incarnate Christ” speaking with Abraham. Their point seems to be that if God th...
From a comparative religions’ perspective, saying that someone is the son of a god isn’t particularly special. Many religions feature warriors, heroes, and kings who are describe as the offspring of gods. Christianity goes beyond that and says that Jesus was also God himself in human form. This is a shocking claim to make, but it’s exactly who Jesu...
The Bible gives a number of reasons for why Jesus had to come, why that mysterious mix of divinity and flesh was necessary. Here are five of the reasons mentioned in the Bible: To become more like us. Hebrew 2:14-18 says that Jesus “had to be made like his brothers in every way,” suffering as he was tempted, which means he can help us as we are tem...
It’s important not to downplay Jesus’ time on earth leading up to his death, the things he learned, and the things he taught. You could argue that one of the things Western Christians most misunderstand about Jesus is his human side, especially given the point mentioned earlier about what Jesus learned by becoming human and suffering. However, the ...
Jan 4, 2022 · When we say that Jesus Christ is God “Incarnate,” we mean that the Son of God took on a fleshly, bodily form (John 1:14). However, when this happened in the womb of Mary, Jesus’ earthly mother, He did not stop being deity.
Study A Life Like No Other: Jesus the Incarnate Word in 1, 2, and 3 John using the Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary. This commentary series allow readers to see Christ in all aspects of Scripture.
- Jesus is God the Son, the second person of the Trinity, who has eternally shared the one, undivided divine nature with the Father and Spirit and is thus fully God.
- Jesus is God the Son incarnate. The word “incarnation” comes from the Latin (in + carnes [flesh]), which means “in the flesh.” Scripture teaches that the divine Son (person), who eternally shares the divine nature with the Father and Spirit, acted to assume a human nature without a human “person/subject” (contra Nestorianism that affirmed two “persons” in Christ).
- The human nature assumed by the divine Son was unfallen and sinless. Christ’s human body and soul had all the capacities of original humanity thus enabling the Son to be human and to live and experience a fully human life, against Docetism (Christ only appeared to be human) and Apollinarianism (Christ only assumed an incomplete human nature).
- As a result of the incarnation, the divine Son now subsists and acts in two natures without changing the integrity of either nature, confusing them, or making them a hybrid of divine and human.
Let me introduce you to Jesus, the goodness and glory of God par excellence, manifest supremely in the One who bore our sins in his body on the tree, the Lamb of God, and then who returned to the glory he had with the Father before the world began, full of grace and truth.”
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Only He knew the secret of God, for He was one with God. Only He had seen God, for He was the Son of God, “in glory with God before the world was.” “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son (himself God), which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.”