Bible Readings
Hebrews 2:5-18, Galatians 3:26-4:7
Gal. 4:4
But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son,
born of a woman, born under the law,
Luke 1:35
And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come
upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you;
therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son
of God.
I The Father planned and sent His Son
II The Son was sent
III The Spirit wrought about the incarnation
The Athanasian Creed (early fifth century)
- For the right faith is, that we believe and confess: that our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man; - God, of the substance of the Father: begotten before the worlds:
and man, of the substance of His Mother, born in the world. - Perfect God: and perfect Man, of a reasonable soul and human
flesh subsisting. - Equal to the Father, as touching His Godhead: and inferior to the
Father as touching His Manhood. - Who although He be God and Man; yet He is not two, but one
Christ. - One; not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh: but by taking of
the Manhood into God. - One altogether; not by confusion of Substance: but by unity of
Person. - For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man: so God and Man
is one Christ;
“The Word was not so circumscribed in the body as to be there only
and nowhere else. He was still the energizing principle of all things as
before. He was in everything, but not essentially identified with
everything; being only entirely in the Father alone. The soul by acts of
thought can comprehend distant objects, but cannot influence them;
not so the Word, for He controlled both His own body and the whole
universe, being in all things and yet essentially distinct from them. As
man, He fulfilled human duties; as Word, He quickened all things; as
Son, He was with the Father.” Athanasius