The Incarnation was bigger than Christmas!
What is the incarnation? What do Christians mean by incarnation? The incarnation comes from Latin and means “in the flesh.” Put briefly, the incarnation is the doctrine that God the Son, the Second Person of the Trinity, became truly human without ceasing to be truly God. In Jesus Christ, we have two natures, divine and human, united in one and the same person, the Son of God. Jesus is not half-God and half-man, nor a blend of God and man, but both truly God and truly man. The importance of the hypostatic union Related to the doctrine of the incarnation is the hypostatic union. The term hypostatic union comes from the Greek word hypostasis, often translated into English as person. Thus, the “hypostatic union” refers to the union of a truly human nature and a truly divine nature in the one person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Why does this matter? In the fifth century, some taught that the incarnation meant a divine person taking on a human person, resulting in two persons in Christ lo...