Incarnation

Incarnation

Humanity was created for communion with God, made in His image to share in divine life. Through sin, however, humanity corrupted itself and fell into death and decay, not only physical death, but spiritual disintegration, moving further and further away from the life it was meant to live.

The problem was not simply that humanity had broken a rule and needed forgiveness. Rather, human nature itself had been damaged. Humanity became mortal, subject to corruption, and trapped in a condition it could not escape on its own.

God could not simply ignore this reality or dismiss it. His word is true, and He had declared that sin leads to death. Divine justice required that this consequence stand. Yet divine love would not allow humanity to perish.

For this reason, the Word of God, the Logos through whom all things were created, took on human flesh and became truly human. By uniting divine nature and human nature in His own Person, Christ healed and restored what had been broken.

Christ lived a fully human life without sin, revealing what humanity was always meant to be. He then entered death voluntarily, not because death had power over Him, but in order to destroy death from the inside through His divinity.

When Christ rose from the dead, He did not merely return to life. He transformed human nature itself, opening the way for humanity to be raised with Him and to participate once again in the divine life that had been lost.