the Incarnation The doctrine that the second person of the Trinity assumed human form in the person of Jesus Christ and is fully divine and fully human
The Christian doctrine asserting that the prehuman Son of God became flesh, the man Jesus of Nazareth, to reveal the divine will to humanity-a doctrine based largely on the Logos hymn that opens the fourth Gospel (John 1: 1-18, especially 1: 14; see also Col 1: 15-20; 2: 9-15; Phil 2: 5-11; Heb 1: 1-4; 2: 14-18)
time passed in a particular bodily form; "he believes that his life will be better in his next incarnation"
literally, "enfleshed " The taking on of a human shape or nature by a divinity See also Avatar
(Christianity) the Christian doctrine of the union of God and man in the person of Jesus Christ time passed in a particular bodily form; "he believes that his life will be better in his next incarnation
The word avatar, meaining incarnation, is derived from two Sanskrut words, 'ava' and 'tru' Descent from a higher status to a lower one itself is an incarnation Thus, when the Lord leave His abode and desends to the earth to accomplish His mission, He is said to have assumed an incarnation When the Supreme God assumes the physical form of a man and spends some period or the entire life time in that physical form, it is called an incarnation
The central Christian belief that God took on human form in the person of Jesus Christ
If you say that someone is the incarnation of a particular quality, you mean that they represent that quality or are typical of it in an extreme form. The regime was the very incarnation of evil = embodiment
The Christian belief that God became flesh (Latin in + carne) in Jesus of Nazareth
The Christian mystery of the infinite and eternal God entering the world as a finite human being (or becoming "incarnate") within the womb of the Virgin Mary The human Jesus of Nazareth was vulnerable to all the foibles that afflict humanity as the result of the fall, including hunger, fear, pain, loneliness, and despair; he also experienced hope, love, and the simple pleasure of making breakfast for his friends The divine Son of God had access to supernatural powers such as the forgiveness of sins, the healing of sickness, and mastery over the forces of nature The Son existed before the world, and it was through the Son that the Father created the world In what the early Church called the hypostatic union, the two separate but full natures, human and divine, co-exist, each without diminishing the other, within the one person who is Jesus Christ See also: Trinity
The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature
An incarnation is an instance of being alive on earth in a particular form. Some religions believe that people have several incarnations in different forms. She began recalling a series of previous incarnations. Central Christian doctrine that God became man in the form of Jesus, the son of God and the second person of the Holy Trinity. In Jesus the divine and human nature are joined but neither is changed or diminished. This difficult doctrine gave rise to a variety of heresies, some denying Jesus's divine nature, others his human nature. For orthodox believers the conflict was settled at the Councils of Nicaea (AD 325) and Chalcedon (AD 451)
the term used for Christ in His earthly state; literally a description of God having assumed a human body and soul
{i} manifestation of a deity or spirit in an earthly form; body or form into which a soul is placed; being made incarnate; person or thing manifesting a certain quality or idea; certain form or state