Incarnation

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Incarnation
Incarnation from the Latin carnis meaning
flesh ?It refers to God taking on human flesh
and becoming man in Jesus Christ.
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The Annunciation
The angel Gabriel told Mary that she was going to
conceive a son, the Son of God, Jesus.
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• Jesus is both fully human and fully divine
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  (fully God)
• (100 Human 100 Divine Jesus)

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Jesus was like us in all thingsEXCEPT sin

• Through the person of Jesus, the invisible God
  becomes visible. He becomes human just like us.
  He walked in the path of humanity with us.
• As Jesus was fully human He experienced
• happiness, joy, abandonment, suffering, and even
  death.

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Why did God have to become man?

• God had to reveal Himself to us so that we could
• come to know who God is
• -we could never know who God was unless He showed
  us who He was
• b) come to know what is necessary for salvation
• - He taught us how to live so we could have
  eternal life

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• God became like us, so we could become more like
  Him.
• God
• Humanity

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What can the Incarnation tell us about God and
Humanity

• God loves and values humanity so much that the
  Son of God became fully human

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Hebrews 415

• For we do not have a high priest who is unable to
  sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one
  who in every respect has been tested as we are,
  yet without sin.

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