On The Incarnation Analysis

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St Athanasius was a deacon of the church of Alexandria in Egypt. Athanasius was a bishop of Alexandria. He spend seventeen years in exile. A theologian who was known for his two works “Life of Antony”, and “On the Incarnation”. Arius denied that Christ was really and completely God, contending from the Bible that just the Father had been genuinely God, and the Son was the firstborn of creation. Athanasius was his arch-enemy – and a deacon in the same church. His principle conflict with Arius concerned salvation: we are saved because Christ, God himself turned into a human being and died a human death. God became human to make people divine; the immortal became mortal to raise mortals to everlasting life.
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The word was our Lord Jesus Christ. God's most valuable and imperative creation was that of man; whom he created in his own image (Genesis 1:27); He gave man, a portion of the power of his own word, he made the man rational so that man may might abide in the blessedness of the work of the creator and live a true life in the holy paradise the Garden of Eden. God simply told them to follow a law not to eat from one tree, so if they had kept the command, they would have remained in paradise. However, they got tempted by evil and sinned against God. Thus, they transgressed and entered into a state of death and corruption breaking the commandment of God. Mankind started to drift more towards corruption and death, they did not set any limits they gradually went beyond the measures, and they became the inventors of evil and insatiable in sinning . The image of God needed restoration, for mankind was in corruption and death, only one who could restore incorruption in humanity was the Word of God. But word of God had to bring the corruptible to incorruptibility and also had to maintain his divine consistency .The Word of the Father, he alone had the ability to bring restoration and to recreate everything, and worthy to suffer on behalf of mankind, to intercede for all before the Father. He came condescending towards human beings showing his love for us. He prepared for himself in the body of a virgin so that he may not be a part of the

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