In the ancient mindset, a God is someone who is free from bodily problems. I would suggest this sort of thing is crept back in significantly today with much of the LGBTQ movement and the idea that the body confines us. When Jesus shows up and claims to be God and then eats a meal or sleeps in the front of a boat or does something like this, people say that God's don't do such things. Well, there's a mentality that we need to be saved from creation. The problem with the world is its createdness, its materialness, the fact that it's material. It's not the thing that needs to be redeemed. Yeah, salvation from the world and the body
Christ’s incarnation immediately sets Christianity apart from other religions and disrupts the expectations of religious leaders. So, what is this important doctrine and what do we lose if we deny it? In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland consider Christ’s divine and human natures and what Christ’s incarnation means for us.