Search results
The incarnation means that while remaining God, Jesus took upon a new nature - a human nature. The incarnation was the uniting the divine and the human into one being, one person. Jesus Christ was fully God and fully human.
May 27, 2004 · If Jesus Christ was not virgin born, then He was not God in the flesh and was therefore only a man possessing the same sinful nature that every fallen child of Adam possesses. The fact of the Incarnation lies in the ever-existing One putting aside His eternal glory to become a man.
- God Reveals Himself as The Lord
- General and Special Revelation
- Media of Revelation
- Conclusion
God’s personal name is Lord, which translates the mysterious name I AM which God revealed to Moses in Ex. 3:14–16. His lordship connotes particularly his control, authority, and presence in relation to the world he has made (see John Frame, The Doctrine of God, pp. 21–240, and The Doctrine of the Word of God, pp. 3–14, 47–68). Everything he does re...
Theologians make various distinctions among types of revelation. The most common is between general and special revelation. General revelation is revelation of God given to everybody. It is the kind of revelation described in Romans 1. It tells us that God exists, what kind of God he is, and his moral standards. In revealing God’s standards, it sho...
Another way to distinguish between types of revelation is to distinguish the different ways in which revelation comes to us, the media of revelation. There are basically three types of media: events, words, and persons. These three categories correspond roughly to our earlier distinction between control, authority, and presence. But both these thre...
If we are to know God, it is important for us to seek knowledge in God’s own way. Many have tried to gain knowledge of God through their unaided reason, or through some kind of subjective intuition. But the God of the Bible has told us not only who he is but also how we should seek knowledge of him. That knowledge comes as we attend to his created ...
Mar 13, 2022 · Though God was not fully known, Jesus, the incarnation of God, has now “made him known” (Jn 1:18) by coming down to us from Heaven (Jn 6:38), for no one can make God known in the most full, true sense, except for God himself. And Jesus himself declared that only he can reveal God fully, in his words, “no one knows the Father except the ...
- He Wanted to Further Reveal God to Humanity. The first and foremost reason was to give a further revelation of the living God to humanity. If you wish to know what God is like, you need go no further than to look at Jesus Christ.
- Jesus Came to Fulfill God’s Promises to Certain People. The God of the Bible makes promises and He keeps His promises. From a study of the Scripture we find that God made a number of promises to people like Adam and Eve, Abraham, and King David.
- Jesus Came to Fulfill the Law of Moses. God the Son, Jesus, also came to fulfill the Law that God had given through Moses. Jesus Himself testified that His coming was to fulfill the Law and not to abolish it.
- Jesus Came to Die for the Sins of the World. When sin first entered the world, God instituted the concept of substitutionary sacrifice where He required the sacrifice to die.
Jan 4, 2022 · God can never stop being God because He is immutable (Hebrews 13:8) and infinite (Revelation 1:8). If Jesus stopped being fully God for even a split second, all life would die (see Acts 17:28). The doctrine of the Incarnation says that Jesus, while remaining fully God, became fully man.
People also ask
Did Jesus incarnate?
Did God become a human in Jesus Christ?
Was God turned into a human?
Is incarnation a biblical word?
How did Jesus become flesh and blood?
Why did Jesus come to Earth?
Dec 23, 2019 · How could a Person be God and man? The passage Philippians 2:5–11, called “Carmen Christi” or “hymn of Christ”, is one of the most important for the Incarnation: 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God a thing to be grasped;
