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- To Subject the World to Humanity (Hebrews 2:5) Jesus was born to subject the world to come to us, not to the angels. That’s what Hebrews 2:5 says: “For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.”
- to Bring many sons to Glory by Tasting Death for Everyone (Hebrews 2:5–10) Jesus came to bring sons and daughters to glory by tasting death for everyone.
- To be made perfect by suffering, so that he could sanctify us (Hebrews 2:10c–11) Jesus was born to make humans holy and to sanctify us. It is fitting that God “should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.
- To Adopt us into Jesus’s Family (Hebrews 2:12–13) Jesus was born to be our brother, and so bring us into the family of God. Jesus is our brother. God is our father.
- Jesus had to be born because of mankind's sin. God created Adam and Eve and placed them in a beautiful environment that supplied their every need. In the Garden of Eden our original human parents found food plentiful, animals tame and a loving teacher—God Himself—accompanying them and teaching them everything they needed to know.
- Jesus had to be born because God wanted to reveal His own character to humanity. God wanted to reveal His righteous character to Adam and Eve and to all of mankind so they could become like Him in mind and spirit.
- Jesus had to be born to remove the sins of humankind through a perfect sacrifice. Noah and the patriarchs—Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—offered sacrifices to God.
- Jesus had to be born for mankind to have a Mediator. Jesus is the mediator of the New Covenant. Under the New Covenant, God replaced the sacrifices of the Levitical priesthood with the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Himself.
Dec 10, 2021 · Jesus was born when God's plan was fulfilled, not by chance or coincidence. Learn how the Old Testament prophecies pointed to the time, place and purpose of Jesus' birth and how it relates to our salvation and adoption as God's children.
- Confirm His Humanity.
- Share in The Fullness of The Human experience.
- Remind Us That Faith Is A Journey.
- Show Us That Humility Is The way.
- Enter Into The Story of Israel.
- Enter Into The Human Story.
- Rebuild Humanity from The Ground Up.
- Remind Us That We Need to Be Born again.
- Give Us himself.
- Give Us His Mother.
As stated above, because of Adam, Jesus could certainly have been fully human without a birth. But his birth has the added benefit of confirming the reality of His humanity. The fact that He was born is an indisputable sign of His authentic humanity.
By being born, Jesus shared in experiences that He otherwise would not have. He knew what it was like to be a child. And, what’s more, because of His divinity, He was fully conscious of the experience of being an unborn infant. As a result, He has a radically profound awareness of our experience of helplessness and utter dependence on another. More...
That faith is a journey might seem self-evident to all of us. As Catholics, we believe that salvation takes root in faith, which grows and develops through love. It is process, not a point in time. This is in contrast to many evangelical Protestants who claim that they have been ‘saved,’ as if it was a past one-time event. It is fitting Christ’s re...
In The City of God, St. Augustine says humility is the way to heaven. Christ showed us the way by ‘humbling himself, even to the point of death on a cross’ (to paraphrase Philippians 2:8). The Incarnation prefigures the Passion. Indeed, as another writer on this site recently put it, “It was not so much that His birth cast a shadow on His life, and...
By being born, Jesus became a member of a nation in a particular time and place. He became Jewish. That means that God entered Israel’s story from within, redeemed and elevated it, and invited all of us to share in it. Christ’s birth into the Jewish nation ensures that the Old Testament became part of the Christian Scriptures. Yes, if we accept the...
Likewise, being born ensured that Christ, entered the human story from within. He was, so to speak, truly an insider. Had Christ simply descended in human form from heaven, or been formed from the dust, He would still have been fully human, but He would not have shared in the human story in the same way.
Christ came to give the human race a new beginning, to restore us to our original greatness. The fact that He was born shows that this restoration will be a complete renovation. Christ went back to square one so to speak, to the earliest possibly starting point, the fertilized egg.
The Church teaches that baptism is necessary for salvation. To be baptized is to be ‘born again.’ Once again, Christ, showed us the way by being born Himself.
Yes, He gave Himself to us on the cross. But Christ also gave Himself to us in another way in His birth. It offers us another way to encounter Christ. In his work, On the Incarnation of the Word, St. Athanasius says the variety of experiences Christ underwent ensures He has many ways of reaching out to man: As St. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 9:22, h...
The fact of His birth means that Christ has also given us His mother. We owe our ‘holy Queen, Mother of mercy … our life, our sweetness, and our hope’ to the fact that Christ was born. No birth, no Mary. And let us not fall into the Protestant trap of thinking of Mary as some sort of surrogate birth mother—present merely to give birth and nothing e...
Dec 12, 2023 · These two verses, Matthew 1:18 and 20, show us that the birth of Jesus Christ was by no means the ordinary birth of an ordinary man; it was the extraordinary incarnation of God Himself. The birth of Jesus was the birth of a God-man, a wonderful Person who was both divine and human.
Jesus was born in order to personally reveal the Father (Matthew 11:27). He was the Being who interacted with Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, King David, and others. It was therefore needful for him to reveal, personally, the other Being of the Godhead who was greater than he was (John 10:29, 14:28).
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Nov 24, 1998 · Jesus answered, "For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice." Mark 1:38 [Jesus] said to them, "Let us go somewhere else to the towns nearby, so that I may preach there also; for that is what I came for." John 9:39
