The doctrine of the Incarnation is the most important doctrine in the Christian faith because it is the one that distinguishes Christian thought. The Old Testament is specifically the faith of Christianity in the New Testament, but with the increase that God embodies. The Old Testament foretold that God would be incarnated. Therefore, let us imagine that this incarnation is a pigment if the Old Testament is put out of the New Testament. Therefore, the Christian man who does not understand the incarnation does not understand Christianity, not only understand but also live and live the concepts of incarnation.
1 - What is the meaning of incarnation?
2 - Why incarnation?
3. What happened in the Incarnation?
4. What is the use of Incarnation?
5. What are the objections to the incarnation?
1 - What is the meaning of incarnation?
+ In our normal life, it is possible that there is a certain idea in your mind and we do not see it. If you try to describe it, we do not understand it, so it is a model for us to see. In this case, the idea becomes embodied, as well as drawing, poetry, stories and drama ... What is important is that the intangible thing becomes Sensible and invisible becomes visible.
But in the Christian thought .. We talk about the incarnation of God .. God spirit does not see and wanted to see him took a body to make us see it .. And as we say in the praise "invisible seen him and the intangible touch and non - time has become under time" .. God is The limitedness that fills the presence has become a human being in our size and shape and walked on the ground in our midst. We can also look at the Incarnation in the television transmission that is transmitted from satellites to the whole world. The small device (television) is the one receiving the transmitter. These waves are electromagnetic waves that you can not see. And so also send the mobile (network) .. If humans did all this .. Only God can N materialize and become visible in order to know?! ..
A word of incarnation gives information that Christ was a being before his birth from the Virgin Mary. A word that embodies this does not speak of the birth of any other child because the ordinary child does not have a foundation. A word of incarnation means that he existed without a body, As our teacher John says in his first letter, "From the beginning that we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have seen and touched by our hands on the word of life, life has been shown, and we have seen and witnessed and revealed to you the eternal life that was in the Father and showed us." Existent but not visible ... God (Christ) existed forever but we do not see Him Because he has no body, and he wanted to show us himself, and he was embodied in the form of man.
2- Why Incarnation ؟
+ For the sin of death is due to sin, because sin is separation from God, and whoever separates from God dies. Like a lamp that separates from electricity, it is extinguished. So I live in God. If I sin, I will separate from God and die, not for me. Christ says that he will die in my place .. And show us the problem is that Christ can not die .. The nature of God how to die ?! As we say in the song of Agios "The Holy of the Immortal" does not die in Coptic and Greek "Athanatos" "Athanasius" ie "immortal" .. How can God die?! He tells us that to taste death will become a human but does not lose his theology .. Like the doctor who wants to be Armpit becomes Dr. officer .. This is what happened with Christ is God (Doctor), and wants to be a human being (an officer) does not leave theology but enter the College of purity (Virgin Mary) and remains within 9 months .. and out of man without losing his divinity ..
But Christ is God and man at the same moment. The works of God or the works of man can be done (all in one personality in harmony without division or separation). As we say in the melody, "God is still and has become a Son of Man, but He is the true God who came and saved us." And as we say in the Masses, "You who tasted death in the flesh," as we say in the Mass, "By your death, O Lord, we preach," The God who does not die dies for us because he took flesh ..
+ For example, the fire can not be held, but if you put an iron can hold it .. Iron becomes protected by fire .. And thus became iron stings like fire and fire can be caught like iron .. But still fire fire (theology) Iron Iron (Nassut) .. and did not turn either of them to the other .. Therefore, the Lord Christ with his divinity united manhood became a real man, but God walks and suffers and starves.
+ The word of theology means the nature of God .. The word Nassut means the nature of man .. All of us have Nassut as one nature and all of us are equal in essence and no difference between a child and a man and a man and a woman or even the fetus in the mother's stomach we all have a human nature .. And united with us Christ in this nature We walk and talk, we have minds, we have freedom, we have the will, we all sleep, we eat, we drink, we grow in knowledge, we grow up and we all die. Every human being is susceptible to pain and illness, but we disagree, for example, in the proportion of intelligence, beauty, height and age. But we all share the human nature and Christ. This human nature .. (grow and grow and grow and eat and hungry and thirst and thirst And before the death) .. Therefore, we say in the praise "He took us and gave us who has his blessings and glorify him and raise him above" took all our qualities and gave us His grace and strength and purity and holiness .. But we did not change attributes, but we became partners in the same thing .. The beneficiary of all this is Humanity.
3. What happened in the Incarnation?
+ That Christ with all His might and His divinity entered into the Virgin's belly and took from her flesh and blood and created for Himself a body that unites Him (human nature). We all know that no girl can conceive without marriage. How can the Virgin conceive without marriage ?! Thus, in the plant, in order for us to have a tree, there must be a seed and a land. Thus, in the human mother (the earth) and the father, he has the seed. The seed must be planted in the motherland to produce a human. This seed is not seen by the naked eye, The child is from the mother and weighs about 3.5 kilos .. And all this body took him from the mother (but there must be a seed) .. And as a man to be present, I need a father bless the blessing of The presence of the seed and the need for mother to give the body ... and Christ existed from the origin .. So he does not need a father gives him the existence but needs or give him the body .. Therefore Christ was born of a mother without a father .. Because he has no body only chose to choose elements His body to come out "the most beautiful beauty of human beings." And of course Christ took the search for a mother who is not like her .. Then entered within and chose the best qualities in it .. She is the best woman in existence as there is no like .. "The Father looked out of the sky He who is like you, sent the only one who came and incarnated from you "...
+ Question: That Christ did not need a father, so why do I need a mother .. Is not he the Creator? !! ..
That is to take the same nature and not strange to us He (Son of man) .. And shared with us in flesh and blood .. To be equal In the essence of human nature, our teacher Paul said in the Epistle of the Hebrews: "Children may participate in flesh and blood, in which they also participate." So if the Protestants say that the Virgin is a box of jewels, we take the jewel and throw the box. Gold .. And did not take the jewel thing of the box or nature .. But we say it (or God) and not (God's packet) .. because it is the earth Which gave Christ the body .. The heretics said that it (a tube passed by God) .. All these words are not exact because it (or real) as Elizabeth said, "Where to me this to come to the mother of my Lord" .. Says the priest in the confession in Mass "I believe that this is the body taken by your only son from Our Lady Mary" ..
+ This is what happened in the incarnation that God with his divinity entered the belly of the Virgin and took from her flesh and blood and created for himself a body and united him .. He was born of a virgin and we were very similar except sin alone .. He walked on the earth as a man carrying within him all the bulk of theology but he hid it .. And no one knew of his secret only the Virgin Mary .. Therefore, all of us stand before them dazzled .. How she had to conceive in her heart information that no one can know or tolerated others .. And so rose above the human nature. "Mary was keeping all these things reflective In her heart. "She spoke only to Elizabeth when she opened her mouth and said," The soul of the Lord is exalted and my soul rejoices in God. "At the wedding of Cana Galilee said" They have no wine ".. She said to the servants," Whatever he said you do ".. Here we find that she did not speak only these words and did not open Vaha in other words .. There is no such and frankly it is It deserves to be the mother of God "Axia" any worthy .. Thus embodies God of virgin virgin girl.
4. What are the benefits or blessings of incarnation?
1 - Redemption: Without the Incarnation, there was no redemption.
2 - We discovered what we did not know .. As we discovered that humanity is respectable in the eyes of God .. And began to recover the human feeling in itself .. As God came down and lived among us .. So the body is not evil .. But also increased respect .. And that Father He bought a T-shirt for his son and did not like it .. But he was impressed when he found that the President of the Republic is wearing the same .. This shirt is the same that was worn by the President of the Republic .. So this t-shirt has become valuable in the eyes of the boy .. Thus our Lord gave us a body Because it is full of lusts and impurities. So we see that the Son of God wears a body like our body, so this body is respectable. The biggest surprise is that we are baptized In order to deal with the Son of God, our body became a part of him. In this case, our body is very, very precious. Therefore, in the Liturgy of Christ, "blessed by nature in you" our nature became blessed, honored and respectable.
3 - This body, which united Jesus Christ lived on earth our normal life .. All life lost .. Whether drinking or eating fasting or sleep or wake up or talk or silence or work or .. Because all this is done .. And became life After all, Christ became the Christ of the temple and the prayer, but Christ of all life. You can meet Christ not only in the Church but in all places because they are all sacred.
4 - Christ after death and resurrection took his body and went in heaven and there is a legal precedent .. So also our bodies can enter with him to heaven .. So our teacher Paul says "entered as before for us" opens the door for us .. Jesus said, "I am going to prepare for you Place. "The sky is a place for the gods and the angels, but Christ took the people and introduced them, so it is possible for us to enter also at the expense of Christ.
5. What are the objections to incarnation?
There are people who do not believe the Incarnation ..
1 - People who underestimate the value of human beings, they bully that God becomes a man like the example of the boy and T-shirt, he did not like the t-shirt brought by his father ... So we must respect the human nature do not be surprised the embodiment of God.
We say God is an incarnation ... but the objectors understand it. On the contrary, we question the man who is Christ. But we say that Christ is God and then becomes a human being. The example of a student who says that the principal does not accept him. But if the director enters the classroom and hears Explanation of the teacher such as the student is no wonder in that because this is his right .. When the great waiver glorify and when the growing small do not accept .. Especially as we know that "God is all capable of" did not say that everything is capable of the Incarnation .. It is true that We limit the abilities of God ..
We have to open our heart to our great humble God so that we can not find him "turned and crossed" ...