Necessity of the Incarnation

Jesus, the Son of God, became Incarnate. We are the reason for the necessity of the Incarnation. Jesus had to be human for our salvation. We know that He is truly our savior. His Incarnation, suffering, death, and Resurrection was for all of us. Jesus came to save us from our sins and evilness, and to guide us back to the Godhead.

In the beginning the Word created everything. After creation, humans were holy, and in harmony with God. One action, Original Sin, ended that holiness, and harmony harmony and God created many consequences.Of these consequences, death was the most prominent consequence. We do “not just die only, but remain in the state of death and of corruption.”(Athanasius 3). As we continued to sin we became less and less like the image of God, in which we were created in.

We had pulled ourselves away from God. When God gave us the consequences for straying from the holiness, He himself created a dilemma. We call this dilemma the Divine Dilemma. This is the Divine Dilemma: “The law of death, which followed from the Transgression, prevailed upon us, and from it there was no escape. The thing that was happening was in truth both monstrous and unfitting. It would, of course, have been unthinkable that God should go back upon His word and that man, having transgressed, should not die; but it was equally monstrous that beings which once had shared the nature of the Word should perish and turn back again into non-existence through corruption” (Athanasius 6). This really means it is atrocious that God’s holy creation is dying, but if he repeals these consequences he will be seen as a liar and not all-knowing. We couldn’t just repent and say sorry because it isn’t in our nature. We had to drive the evil ...

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...feated death, because death is powerless against the Life[Jesus]” (Athanasius 44). We are not afraid of death because Jesus,

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Jesus came to root out our corruption and show us how to get closer to the Godhead. Humanity’s sins were the cause of the incarnation. Jesus, the Word, had to come and save us. Jesus is truly our salvation. His Incarnation, suffering, death, and Resurrection was for everyone. The Incarnation is one of the most important events is history ever.

Works Cited

St., Athanasius. "On the Incarnation of the Word."Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Christian Classics Ethereal Library, n.d. Web. 3 Mar 2014. .

Pohle, Amanda. “On the Incarnation Notes.” Jesus Christ: God’s Love Made Visible. St. Mary’s Springs High School. 7,17,24 February 2014. Lecture.