Incarnation
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The unique historic event in which God the Son, second person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ, condescended to take fully upon Himself human nature, to be born, to live, to die, and to be raised from death.
The Incarnation, as a doctrine, forms the cornerstone of the study of christology and soteriology -- we do not understand Jesus Christ our Emmanuel or his saving work apart from both His full humanity (that he was a person like us in all ways except regarding sin) and His full deity (that He and the Father are one). This is the intellectual scandal of Christianity, that God not only would humble Himself to become a mere man, but would humble himself to the point of death at the hands of His enemies. That God should die is an unthinkable mystery, an intractable paradox, a defiance of our religious aspirations and haughty philosophy.
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References
- Unapologetic Apologetics, Chapter 8, Christology and the "Y" Chromosome
