The Incarnation was necessary to enable mortality to be present in Christ in addition to His Divinity. He was born of a woman to become the first to rise from the dead. Christ suffered physically and mentally just as any human being would suffer when subjected to scourging and crucifixion. If God had been incarnate in a being of such strength that He did not suffer then that would be the same as His never being incarnate at all. But never allow faith to be suffocated by all the theories which abound, for the simple truth is that God became man in Jesus who suffered, died on the cross and then rose again from the dead that sins might be forgiven, so that we in turn might defeat death and become a part of the essence that is God. In simple terms God became man that man might become synonymous with God. The work that God wants from us is to believe in Him and in the one He sent and to obey His teaching, as outlined by Christ in the Gospels.
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