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Theophylact of Ohrid: "The Evangelist intends by making mention of the flesh, to show the unspeakable condescension of God, and lead us to admire His compassion, in assuming for our salvation, what was so opposite and incongenial to His nature, as the flesh: for the soul has some propinquity to God. If the Word, however, was made flesh, and ...
One of the oldest Greek manuscripts using the variant θεός ἐφανερώθη ("God was manifested") is the Codex Athous Lavrensis, dated to the late 9th or early 10th century. [8] This variant is supported by most later manuscripts.
In Christian theology, the incarnation is the belief that the pre-existent divine person of Jesus Christ, God the Son, the second person of the Trinity, and the Logos (Koine Greek for 'word') was "made flesh," [1] "conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary," [2] also known as the Theotokos (Greek for "God-bearer" or "Mother of God").
There is one indivisible God with no distinction of persons in God's eternal essence, and; Jesus Christ is the manifestation, human personification, or incarnation of the one God. [51] They contend, based on Colossians 2:9, that the concept of God's personhood is reserved for the immanent and incarnate presence of Jesus only. [52]
He is God from the essence of the Father, begotten before time; and he is human from the essence of his mother, born in time; completely God, completely human, with a rational soul and human flesh; equal to the Father as regards divinity, less than the Father as regards humanity. Although he is God and human, yet Christ is not two, but one.
Lastly, since God is a spirit, it is held that the Holy Spirit should not be understood as a distinct person but rather should be understood as the one God who is a person in action in the world. Modalistic Monarchianism is closely related to Sabellianism and Patripassianism , two ancient theologies condemned as heresy in the Great Church and ...
As John 3:16 famously says, "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." Therefore, Christmas prayers also ...
Incarnation literally means embodied in flesh or taking on flesh. It is the conception and the embodiment of a deity or spirit in some earthly form [1] or an anthropomorphic form of a god. [2] It is used to mean a god, deity, or Divine Being in human or animal form on Earth.