God the Son
Jesus the Son of God is begotten by God the Father. The meaning of begotten is to receive and be everything the father is.
So that Mankind might be redeemed and receive adoption as Sons and Daughters of God, the Father sent his only Son.(3)
Jesus is from Joshua. Joshua is the one who led Israel into the promised land. Jesus means “God saves”. Christ means messiah or “God’s Anointed”. Lord is the title given to the one true God. Son of David is reference to the true King of Israel, not the Herodians.
The Word of God was made flesh. Christ emptied himself of His divine glory and became man, God incarnated into human flesh. He did not cease being God, but voluntarily placed himself under the restrictions of a human existence. This is called the incarnation, and is mystery in that Jesus was both fully God and fully human. The incarnation is called God’s greatest condescension. (4)
Jesus is the New Adam, man as he should have been. Through his temptations, trials, passion, death, and resurrection he reunites mankind with God. His sacrifice on the cross redeems all of mankind. (1) (2)
He appears again to the disciples, with His body, and with the wounds of His passion. He ascends into heaven taking His body. This is the greatest compliment ever paid to humanity. That God would identify himself with his humanity that he would return to heaven with it.
Christ promises to be with His Church through all time, and is still in the Sacrament of the Eucharist.
The incarnation is a living mystery as today God is still made manifest in the humanity of Christians everywhere.
Bible stories that help in explaining Christ:
1.Abraham and Isaac
2.The Seraph Serpent in the Desert
3.The Parable of the Master and the Son
4.The Confession of Peter
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