I'm interested to hear everyone's thoughts on the matter of the incarnation. How do you view and understand the incarnation? If you could also please back up your thoughts with biblical references. After all, the Bible is the basis for the doctrine of the incarnation, so it seems appropriate to use the Bible in order to explain the incarnation.
Relevant passages: John 1:14; 1 Timothy 3:16; Galatians 4:4; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 1:15, 19; John 10:30
It is interesting that the incarnation is not explained very much. Matthew 1 doesn't even call him God or a son of God; it just says that there is a child from the Holy Spirit, named Jesus. Luke's birth account does not help much when it comes to the mystery of the incarnation either.
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 2 The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and
we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. 3 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 4 We write this to make our[a] joy complete.
Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said:
“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
but a body you prepared for me;
6with burnt offerings and sin offerings
you were not pleased.
7Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll—
I have come to do your will, my God.
My understanding would be that the Son who was, (His spirit), was in the body God prepared for Him and that from Jesus's testimony the Father was living in Him and in that manner they were one.
Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. 55For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. 57Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 58This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” 59He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
Many Disciples Desert Jesus
60On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”
61Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them,
“Does this offend you? 62Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before!
Jesus was a eyewitness of His Majesty. As no other before that time.
No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.
John the baptists testimony about the lamb of God
The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33Whoever has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34For the one whom God has sent
speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit
the one from above
For in Him it did please the fullness to dwell.
So God with us.
