The Word became flesh and tabernacled among us. John 1:14

Let’s shatter the idea of Greek logical thinking. It has its place, but living with mystery is something Americans have forgotten.

The idea of the incarnation is one of those things that does not make sense logically. How can the Christ be fully human and fully God? You just have to trust that it is so. It is a mystery; meaning it is infinitely knowable. 

Logic would suggest if you are fully God you cannot be human, and if you are fully human you cannot be divine. It seems you could be part God and part human, but not fully God and fully human. To hold both of those things at the same time is the great mystery of the incarnation.

To me, the incarnation is more difficult to explain than the Trinity.

I cannot even give you a visual representation of the incarnation. How can you take two distinct wholes and combine them into another whole without adding to or diminishing either one?

If you combine silver and gold you get an alloy called electrum. So you’ve taken two independent things and made something completely different— Jesus is not a hybrid of humanity and divinity.

You can make a ring of silver and gold without mixing the elements, but each segment is either silver or gold. Jesus doesn’t have human parts distinct from divine parts.

So how can God be both fully human and fully God?

I cannot logic this equation. I just have to trust that it is so.

I love the incarnation because we are included in the fully human part of that equation. When Jesus takes on full humanity to go with his full divinity he bonds himself, and heaven, to us permanently. He is fully human and fully God. We are only human, but we are in Christ, so are included in this wonderful relationship. We are seated on the throne with the Father, in Christ, and we enjoy the privileges of being bonded to the fully divine. 

Jesus was the full revelation of God, not merely a representative. In Jesus, God represents all of mankind to himself. He is the perfection of our side of the covenant. He is the Union of man and God. He is the incarnation. The Emannuel­­ – God with us.