The Incarnation and tamales on my mind

"There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." John 1:6-14

Merry Christmas everyone, especially to my four, hard-core, faithful blog-devotees from El Monte, Montebello, Pico Rivera and East Lost Angeles, respectively! Hoooorah!

Though I wanted to wait till January 2010 to emerge from my self-imposed, cyber-cocoon, I just couldn’t wait any longer! As I am in a lock ‘n load mode, getting ready for this coming Sunday morning-services, pouring over the Christmas story, absorbing the sensational, estimating the powerful and overwhelmed by the glorious mystery of the Incarnation of God, which is one of the central heartbeats of Christian doctrine, I just had to shout-out to Jesus and thank Him publicly, unashamedly proclaiming of His goodness and benevolence, and to celebrate the reason for the season.

Incarnation [Lt. being or taking flesh] While a biblical idea, is not a biblical term].
Its Christian-use derives from the Latin version of John 1:14 and appears repeatedly in Latin Christian authors from about A.D. 300 onward:
et Verbum caro factum est et habitavit in nobis et vidimus gloriam eius gloriam quasi unigeniti a Patre plenum gratiae et veritatis

As a biblical teaching, incarnation refers to the affirmation that God, in one of the modes of His existence as Trinity and without in any way ceasing to be the one God, has revealed Himself to humanity for its salvation by becoming human.

Jesus, the Man from Nazareth, is the Incarnate Word or Son of God, the focus of the God-human encounter. As the God-Man, He mediates God to humans; as the Man-God, He represents humans to God. By faith-union with Him, men and women, as adopted children of God, participate in His filial relation to God as Father.

Incarnation—the union of divinity with humanity in Jesus Christ; it used in a theological term referring to the embodiment of God in Jesus Christ the Lord.
An act of grace whereby Christ took our human nature into union with his Divine Person became man. According to Matthew and Luke, Jesus was both divine and human at His birth and continued thus through His life.
Jesus Christ has taken upon him our human nature that by that mysterious union of the human and divine in the one Person of Christ our human nature might be cleansed from the dark stain of sin and created anew after the image of God


While there are multiple purposes through the Incarnation of God, like...
Revealing the Father - John 14: 8-11
Becoming our High priest - Hebrews 7: 24-28
To fulfill God’s will - Hebrews 10: 5-9
To become our example - 1 Peter 2:21-23
To fulfill prophecy - Luke 4: 17-21
To fulfill Righteousness - Matthew 3: 15
To reconcile the world - 2 Corinthians 5:18-21
To destroy and dismantle Death, once and for all, and he (Chamuko, cha-mooko) that had the power to paralyze people with dread and phobia – Hebrew 2: 14-15: Since the children, as he calls them, are people of flesh and blood, Jesus himself became like them and shared their human nature. He did this so that through his death he might destroy the Devil, who has the power over death, and in this way set free those who were slaves all their lives because of their fear of death. TODAY’S ENGLISH VERSION

However, according to the Christmas narrative, Luke states that the number one reason for the incarnation of the Lord Jesus Christ…Jesus came to die for the sins of His people and of the world…and to become our personal Savior, personal intercessor and personal High Priest!

Romans 8:3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin.

Merry Christmas!!!

Tencha, Lety and Nympha, your tamales are a bomb!!!! Thank you in advance (hint, hint)