The Incarnation is the miraculous event where the eternal Son of God took upon Himself a true human nature, becoming one person with two natures—fully God and fully man—to secure our salvation. This mystery signifies that the Creator entered His own creation to live, suffer, and die on behalf of sinners.
The Incarnation is the foundation of our hope. As the confesses, our Lord Jesus Christ is one Christ, not by the conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by taking the manhood into God. He is perfect God and perfect man, possessing both a reasonable soul and human flesh. This is beautifully summarized in the , which explains that Christ became man by taking to himself a true body and a soul, conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the virgin Mary. As the Apostle John declares: .
The Incarnation was not a mere display of divine power, but a necessary act of redemption. As John Owen notes in , the incarnation is peculiarly ascribed to the Son as the first step in the work of our salvation, leading directly to His oblation and intercession. Christ became small so that we, who are deeply flawed and sinful, might be lifted up. In this God-Man we find full acceptance before the Father, for He assumed our human nature to act as our representative. As it is written: .