THE INCARNATION OF CHRIST
THE INCARNATION OF CHRIST All praise to thee, Eternal Lord, Clothed in a garb of flesh and blood; Choosing a manger for a throne, While worlds of worlds are thine alone. Martin Luther The Incarnation in Christianity is the belief that the second person of the Trinity, also known as God the Son or the Logos (Word), "became flesh" by being conceived in the womb of Mary, also known as the Theotokos (God-bearer). Consequently, the divine nature of the Son was united, but not mixed, with human nature in one divine Person, Jesus Christ, who is both "truly God and truly man". It is the longing of the mortal man to see the immortal God. It is the natural heart pangs of the visible man to see the invisible God. This desire is one of the heart yearnings of man that resulted in corrupted man condescending to less than animalistic nature of which the living man bows than to dead though visible idols. Job expressed this in Job 23: 8, 9: “Behold, I go forward, but He