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4. Why the Word Became Flesh: To Reconcile Us and Show God’s Love

4. Why the Word Became Flesh: To Reconcile Us and Show God’s Love. 4. Why the Word Became Flesh: To Reconcile Us and Show God’s Love. BASIC QUESTIONS Why did God become man? KEY IDEAS God became man to reconcile us with God by making expiation for our sins by his life and sufferings.

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4. Why the Word Became Flesh: To Reconcile Us and Show God’s Love

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  1. 4. Why the Word Became Flesh:To Reconcile Us and Show God’s Love

  2. 4. Why the Word Became Flesh:To Reconcile Us and Show God’s Love BASIC QUESTIONS Why did God become man? KEY IDEAS God became man to reconcile us with God by making expiation for our sins by his life and sufferings. God became man to show us the depths of his love.

  3. 4. Why the Word Became Flesh:To Reconcile Us and Show God’s Love Of the three Persons of the Blessed Trinity, why is it appropriate that God the Son be entrusted with the redemption of the world? What are the four reasons presented in this chapter for why God became man? What do reconcile and expiation mean? FOCUS QUESTIONS

  4. 4. Why the Word Became Flesh:To Reconcile Us and Show God’s Love Why did our first parents’ sin create an “ever-widening” rift between God and the human race? Why is Original Sin—and by extension every mortal sin—infinitely serious? Why is it impossible for a human being or all human beings together to offer just atonement for sin? FOCUS QUESTIONS

  5. 4. Why the Word Became Flesh:To Reconcile Us and Show God’s Love Why is it necessary, though, that man offer reparation to God for sin? What exactly was the redemptive sacrifice that Christ offered? What are some less dramatic examples of Christ’s redemptive actions? FOCUS QUESTIONS

  6. 4. Why the Word Became Flesh:To Reconcile Us and Show God’s Love What is a second reason God became man? How does creation itself show God’s love? How does God’s plan of redemption show his love? What is the greatest love of which man is capable? FOCUS QUESTIONS

  7. 4. Why the Word Became Flesh:To Reconcile Us and Show God’s Love GUIDED EXERCISE Work with a partner to build an argument to show why the Incarnation was “necessary” for us to be reconciled to God. (pg 89)

  8. Necessity of the Incarnation Man’s sins offend an infinite being and therefore an infinite reparation is owed. Man can only offer a finite (limited) reparation because man is finite. Only God can offer infinite reparation because only God is infinite. (Yet, God is not man) A Person who is both God an man could offer this infinite reparation: as man he owes it and as God he is capable of paying it. Therefore, the Incarnation was necessary.

  9. 4. Why the Word Became Flesh:To Reconcile Us and Show God’s Love Why can every person who suffers feel close to Christ? How was Christ’s Passion a seeming tragedy for Jesus’ followers? Why is Christ’s Passion part of Adam’s “felix culpa”? FOCUS QUESTIONS

  10. 4. Why the Word Became Flesh:To Reconcile Us and Show God’s Love CLOSURE Write a paragraph summarizing the two reasons presented in this lesson why God became man.

  11. 4. Why the Word Became Flesh:To Reconcile Us and Show God’s Love HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT Reading and Outline • The Word Became Flesh to Offer a Model of Holiness through The Word Became Flesh to Allow a Share in Divine Life (pp. 91– 96)

  12. 4. Why the Word Became Flesh:To Reconcile Us and Show God’s Love Work with a partner to select a Passion narrative from one of the four Gospels and to list every suffering Christ endured as reported in that account. Matt 26-27 Mark 14-15 Luke 22-23 John 18-19

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