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Discussion Thread- Debate about why the Son of God became Human
Theology 313
It was necessary for the Son of God to become human because “The truth of Christ as the
revelation of God-in-the-flesh is the load-bearing symbol that bears the weight of the entire
symbolic universe of the Christian faith.”
1
Bird states that a Christian’s devotion rests on 2
crucial axioms:
1. God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself. It was through the
Messiah that God gave the opportunity for the world to be made right in Him. He offered His
Son to be the offering for the forgiveness of sins. It was in Christ, that God put the wrong on
himself so that we could be right with him. 2. Jesus is Lord. As God was named Jehovah
(YHWH) in the Old Testament, Jesus was named Lord in the New Testament. The two are the
same identifying themselves as one. Jesus as Lord was mentioned all throughout the Gospels, the
book of Acts and all throughout Paul’s writings. Specifically, Romans 10:9-13 states: “Because,
if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him
from the dead, you will be saved.
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the
mouth one confesses and is saved.
For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will
not be put to shame.”
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is
Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.
For “everyone who calls on the name of
the Lord will be saved.” While Ehrman may disagree with these truths, we can know that indeed
the Son of God became incarnate. All throughout the New Testament, the common denominator
is that “Jesus shares the transcendent uniqueness of the one God of Israel.”
2
When the time
came, Jesus set aside the privilege of His deity and took on the status of a human. He humbled
himself and lived a selfless, obedient life to His Father and then died a selfless, obedient death.
Because he did this, God lifted Him high and honored Him above anyone or anything that He
created. He was lifted up so that we can call out in praise and give glory to God the Father. In
John chapter 1, we know that the Word was first from day one. God’s Word took on human form
so that He could blaze out the darkness and be the Life-Light. By the Son of God becoming
human, we can be certain that “God is bound up with the story of Jesus. It is by looking at Jesus
that we see the face of God.”
3
1
Bird, Michael F.
“Concluding Thoughts,”
in
How God Became Jesus: The Real Origins of Belief in Jesus’ Divine
Nature—A Response to Bart Ehrman
, ed. Michael F. Bird (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2014), 202.
2 IBID., 203.
3 IBID, 202.
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