1.5 : The Incarnation

Question 1

What is the incarnation?

Answer 1

The belief that God became man as Jesus.

Question 2

What is the virgin birth and why is it important to Catholics?

Answer 2

Virgin birth is the belief that Jesus was concieved without sex.

It is important to Catholics because:
* Jesus was the Son of God (and not just a person chosen and sent by God)
* God was in him and with him
* Jesus had two natures.
He was full human, meaning he was a human being, and fully divine meaning that he was God and was both fully human and divine.

Question 3

What does Luke’s Gospel say about the incarantion?

Answer 3

• Tells how the Angel Gabriel appeared to Mary to tell her about the virgin birth of Jesus, who was born and visited by shepherds, who had been visited by angels telling them of Jesus’ miraculous birth.

Question 4

What does Matthew’s Gospel say about the incarantion?

Answer 4

• Tells how an angel told Joseph about how Mary was virgin, who had conceived by the Holy Spirit and that the child was to be called Jesus beacause he would save people from their sins. Joseph then married Mary, Jesus was born in Bethlehem and visited by three wise men.

Question 5

What does John’s Gospel say about the incarnation?

Answer 5

John’s Gospel is in theological form, identifying Jesus as the Word of God,the second person of the Trinity. John begins his gospel at the beginning of the universe, when the world made everything that there is. He then describes how the Word became flesh in Jesus.

Question 6

Why is the Incarnation important to Catholics?

Answer 6

• Shows that God cared so much for the world that he came to Earth in Jesus to save people from their sins.
• In Jesus, the incarnate Word of God, humans can see what God is like.
• Through Jesus, the incarnate Word of God, God began his process if salvation from sin.

Question 7

What does John Chapter 1 say about the incarantion?

Answer 7

“The Word became flesh and made its dwelling among us, showing the glory of God.”

“No one has seen God, thw Incarnation has made God known.”

Question 7

What does St Paul say in Colossians about the incarnation?

Answer 7

“The Son is the image if the invisible God.”