Incarnation

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  • Incarnation
    • God taking on human form in Jesus
    • The annunciation
      • When the angel Gabriel asked Mary to accept the role of the Mother of the son of God
      • message for Jews, fulfilling promises of descendent 'reign over house of Jacob'
      • name Jesus means saviour in Hebrew
      • conceived by holy spirit, Gods grace works through Mary
      • 'Here I am servant to the Lord'
      • Gods wishes couldn't have come true without human involvement
      • Luke
      • similarities: Mary was a Virgin, GOd worked through human beings, conceived by holy spirit, announced by angel
        • Gods Message to Joseph
          • Matthew
          • genealogy-'Joseph husband on Mary' Jesus not of human parentage
          • willing to obey
          • God has fatherly privilege to name; 'Emmanuel'
          • Jewish Christians- limited role for women
    • Gods Message to Joseph
      • Matthew
      • genealogy-'Joseph husband on Mary' Jesus not of human parentage
      • willing to obey
      • God has fatherly privilege to name; 'Emmanuel'
      • Jewish Christians- limited role for women
    • Word of God
      • ''in the beginning was the word and the word was God'
        • word is eternal, the word existed before all things-echoes Genesis
        • Gods self expression-comes from inside
        • word and God co-exist-'word was with God'
        • dynamic and creative-light and guidance
      • Jesus is word of God
      • an expression of Gods love-grace-Jesus brings truth
    • fully human
      • evangelists show how he suffered,felt pain
      • son of man
        • 'son of man must undergo suffering'
        • ''God become one of us'
    • son of God
      • stood in front of Sanhedrin
        • 'son of the messiah' 'I am'
      • God limiting himself in human condition
  • Incarnation and art
    • For
      • God takes on limitations of human nature
      • Jesus had human qualities
      • any ethnicity-man for all people
      • focus on spiritual aspects of Gods work
    • Against
      • God is infinite
      • 'you shall not make yourself an idol'
        • gives impression you are actually worshipping statue
        • images may give wrong ideas about God
    • Christ the Redeemer
      • arms depict cross, reminder of Gods love
      • arms shows how Jesus takes in all people
    • The Sacred Heart
      • holes in hands
      • hand points to heart
      • crown of thorns round heart
      • piercing through heart
      • flames from heart-burning love.
    • crucifix -death was redemptive,
  • Beattitudes
    • Sermon on the Mount
      • Jesus teachings found in Matthew 5-7, which give Christians a set of rules
    • builds up laws given to Moses in the Old Testament
    • new understanding to the law
    • blessed are for the merciful
    • blessed are the poor in spirit...Kingdom of heaven
    • blessed for those who mourn
  • Parable of the sheep and Goats
    • must care for people in need
    • must help others and not claim to follow him
    • 'just how you did it to one of the least of t hese who are members of my family, you did it to me'
  • St Iranaeus
    • incarnation shows love, and importance of human race
    • the son was the father from the beginnnig
    • the son as the word, inspired people in Old Testament
    • grace comes from the word
    • the word shows God is beyond human sight
    • Jesus has qualities of GOd
    • Jesus is perfect human
    • Jesus' qualities are found in most people
  • Fully God and fully human
    • when hes too much God there's a heresy that Jesus was basically God in disguise
      • when hes too much man, sometimes thought to be just a good man
    • Dei Verbum
      • God is revealed in Jesus, and brings salvation
      • stresses human nature
    • Verbum Domini
      • deliberately limited himself so humans could make sense of GOds love
      • Jesus was fully controlled by GOd
  • Grace
    • no one can earn or deserve grace
    • incarnation ultimate sign of grace
    • humans are sinful, yet grace builds deeper relationship
    • enables us to be aware what God wants from us
    • holy spirit works amongst us
    • 'I will always be with you to the end of the age'-shows in sacraments
      • sacraments
        • baptism
        • confirmation
        • eucharist
        • marriage
          • ordination
        • reconciliation
        • sacrament of the sick
  • sanctify life of believer
  • imago Dei
    • Mary visited cousing ELizabeth-'the child leapt in her womb'
    • Jesus present from moment of conception, as Elizabeth filled with holy spirit

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