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Valerie Pynenburg wrote:

Hi, guys —

I would like some help understanding the importance of the Incarnation and what it gives to the human body.

Thanks for your assistance.

Valerie P.

  { Can you help me grasp the importance of the Incarnation and what it gives to the human body? }

Paul replied:

Valerie,

That's a great question. We could make the statement that God is everywhere, and it would be true but it's not true that God has become everything. God and His creation are starkly different, except for Him becoming a part of it in Jesus.

In Jesus, God united Himself with a created human nature, and then after His Resurrection,
He sent His Spirit to unite Himself with all of human nature through Baptism . . . that would include me and you. Because of the Incarnation and Resurrection (and consequently our faith and Baptism), the human body has become divinized. We can be like God, living with His Life and being His children. Having supernatural life, animating our human body rather than only biological life, is an amazing reality won for us by Christ.

Feel free to follow-up if there are other angles of your question you would like to examine.

Peace,

Paul

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