Incarnation and Inculturation

The incarnation of Jesus Christ is a fundamental of the gospel. Essential to our salvation is the teaching that the Second Person of the Godhead laid aside his visible divine glory and added to his eternal person a complete human nature. From the annunciation onward God fully entered into the human experience, passing through gestation,…

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God With Us

Bob Jones Faith for the Family — December 1980 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. — Matthew 1:23 The existence of God is a self-evident fact, one has only to look about him at…

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FrontLine November/December 2015

FrontLine November/December 2015 | VOLUME 25 | NUMBER 6 God With Us Brian Collins Bible scholars have long discussed what the major themes of the Bible are. God is, of course, at the center of the Bible. The Bible is God’s revelation of Himself to mankind. In revealing Himself to man God also teaches us…

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Christ Is Supreme Because He Is Man (Hebrews 2:5–9)

Layton Talbert Have you ever been stumped by a child’s theological question? It is a humbling reminder that sometimes children see things we have not noticed. A query from my daughter prompted a closer examination of the nuanced Christological argument of Hebrews 1–2. In that argument, the quotation of Psalm 8 in 2:6–8 raises the…

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Is Not This Jesus?

Doug Wright The Jews had a natural hesitancy to accept a person’s Messianic claim. Jesus made the audacious claim that he was the bread that came down from heaven – comparing himself to the Old Testament manna. To this claim, the Jews responded, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother…

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Reflections on the Incarnation of Christ

Thomas Overmiller Thoughts on Mark 10:42-45 and Philippians 2 The Son of God became a human being. He completely identified with us by becoming an actual human being, with a completely human nature and body. He suffered the same pains, experienced the same emotions, endured the same limitations, and encountered the same temptations as we…

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Grappling With the Mystery of the Incarnation

Joel Arnold It’s hard to think of many topics more abstract than mystery. God is one in essence, yet also exists in three persons in a way that transcends human comprehension… This is not the stuff of mommy-blogs and water-cooler discussions. But mystery came into the human world in an overwhelming way that has practical…

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Joseph: A Man of Faith

Bud Talbert Joseph, descendant of Abraham and David, was “the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ” (Matt. 1:16). This is how the earthly father of our Lord is introduced in the New Testament. Notice how careful and specific the wording is? Jesus was indeed born “of Mary” but not…

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