Incarnation
Thursday, September 14, 2023
2:40 PM
Latin: in and carō meaning “in flesh.”
Strongly related to the hypostatic union. The incarnation explains HOW Deity took on humanity.
John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
1 Timothy 3:16 (NKJV) And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the Gentiles, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.
Many will argue that incarnation is not a scriptural word, but the Latin words (incarō) for incarnation appear in John 1:14 within the Latin Vulgate. 

John 1:14 in its Greek language says the Word "Tabernacled among us," giving us a strong visual of Deity within flesh.
1 John 4:2 (NIV) This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
"The Council of Chalcedon (451), whose labors produced the christological definition that fixed orthodox boundaries, declared that Jesus Christ possessed “two natures without confusion, without change, without division, without separation, the distinctiveness of the natures being by no means removed because of the union, but the properties of each nature being preserved” (emphasis added )."
<Reymond, R. L. "Incarnation." In Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. Baker Publishing Group, 2017. Accessed September 14, 2023.>
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This means that over 100 years after the Council of Nicea, they were still trying to define the nature of the incarnation. This was a move to solidify a pre-incarnate 2nd person doctrine among the Church.

Saying Christ had 2 natures that never changed brings to question how he could "grow in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man." (Luke 2:52) 

It also leads many to question the level of kenosis(emptying) that takes place in Philippians 2:6-8. 
What is clear is that God could only ever experience some things through the incarnation.
He bore our sorrow and became acquainted with our grief. (Isaiah 53)
He won mastery of death. (Romans 6:9)
He experienced pain, weakness, hunger, thirst, and even death.
None of this would have been possible without a true human nature to serve as mediator.