Monday, April 1, 2013

Ordination Question #4


Continuing with my answers to the question for provisional membership.

Disclaimer: Feel free to read the answers and use them for guidance. Please don't plagiarize. It's likely your BOOM knows how to use Google. That's the basic amoral reason to not copy. The moral reason is that plagiarism is lying. The more important reason is you need to answer these questions. The Board needs to know what you believe. Even more so, you need to know what you believe. 

Note: Because of plagiarism concerns I have included only the opening sentences of each answer. Good luck with your paperwork.
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4.      What is your understanding of the incarnation?
Incarnation is a concept that is simple and complex at the same time. Incarnation is, at its simplest, the divine indwelling among the human. When we, as Christians, talk about the doctrine of incarnation, we are talking about God coming to Earth and walking amongst us as one of us. Jesus Christ was both God and man – fully divine and fully human. This seems a simple enough concept to grasp, but it is a concept that is infinitely complex. It leads to many questions. How is it possible for one to be fully divine and fully human? Why would God condescend to inhabit a flesh and blood body? Does it even matter if Jesus is fully human and fully divine or not? Some of the questions are answerable some are not.

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