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Athanasius on the Incarnation

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Brianna Vinson

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Thesis

Argument

  • When God created humanity he gave them knowledge so that they would know their creator

  • "For of what use is existence to the creature if it cannot know its creator?"

  • How would they be reasonable without the knowledge of what being reasonable is?
  • People must accept that Jesus is God incarnate (of a person, soul, or spirit "OED").

  • Because Jesus is God, Jesus is able to reveal God, not simply disclose truths about him, but make him known personally.

  • The Word of God came in his own person because it was he who could create humanity in his own image

Athanasius

Argument

My Thoughts

  • Athanasius was the chief deacon assistant to Bishop Alexander of Alexandria.

  • lived around the years 296-373

  • He was exiled five times by four Roman emperors, spending 17 of the 45 years he served as bishop of Alexandria in exile.

  • it is Athanasius's writings that shaped the future of the church
  • God knew the limitations of humanity

  • There were three options in which humanity could have knowledge

1. by looking at nature and figuring out that there must have been a creator

2. converse with the saints (others around them) and learn about God and creation

3. cease from indifference and lead a good life simply by knowing the Law

  • I agree with a lot of what Athanasius has to say
  • God and Jesus are one in the same, too many people assume that Christians are worshiping two deists but that is not the case
  • But by saying that God comes down into human form we have to remember that Jesus still lived as a human with all the same aspects and qualities as a normal human being

http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/theologians/athanasius.html

Argument

  • Despite the knowledge humanity had been given, they still turned towards evil spirits

  • God's solution for this was to renew his Image in humanity, by becoming Jesus Christ

  • God assumed a human body in order that in it death might once for all be destroyed, and that humanity might be renewed according to the Image

The stained panel

  • when a portrait is painted on a panel and has become obliterated through stains the author does not just throw it away

  • the subject of the portrait has to come and sit for it again so that he can be drawn on the same material

  • this is the same for Jesus and God: Jesus is God incarnate he came to renew humanity

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