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Incarnation
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God the Son became a real human being, Jesus, without stopping being God.
Christians believe something remarkable: God did not only send messages from far away. He came Himself. The Son of God was born as a baby, grew up, got tired, ate, cried and worked with His hands. This is called the incarnation, which means God taking on flesh. Jesus is fully God and fully human at the same time, one person.
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John says the Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us (John 1:14). Paul says Jesus, though He was in the form of God, emptied Himself and took the nature of a servant (Philippians 2:5-8). Some think Jesus only looked human, or was a good man God later adopted. The Bible says neither. He was truly God and truly human.
This means God knows your life from the inside. Hebrews says Jesus was tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin (Hebrews 4:15). When you pray in a hard moment, you are talking to someone who has felt hunger, loss and pressure. You can come to Him honestly.
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The Greek sarx, flesh, in John 1:14 stresses real human nature. Colossians 2:9 says all the fullness of the Deity lives in Christ in bodily form. Hebrews 2:14-17 explains why: He shared our flesh and blood so that by His death He could break the devil's power and become a merciful high priest.
Early church councils worked hard to say this carefully. The Council of Chalcedon in 451 confessed Christ as one person in two natures, divine and human, without mixing or separating them. Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant Christians all hold this. When Paul says Jesus emptied Himself, the historic reading is that He took on humanity and its limits, not that He stopped being God.
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The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross.
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.
Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil, and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. For surely it is not the angels He helps, but the descendants of Abraham. For this reason He had to be made like His brothers in every way, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, in order to make atonement for the sins of the people.
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.