Paul's Letter To The Rome Church

THE DOCTRINE OF INCARNATION

The doctrine of the incarnation is at the heart of Biblical Christianity as well as the teaching of Christ pre-existence is foundational to the Christian faith. The fact that Christ “became flesh and dwelt among us” is vital to the truths of His substitutionary death and glorious resurrection. Since apart from these events there is no salvation, one can quickly see how the “coming in flesh” of Jesus is so important to the Christian faith. Without the pre-existence Christ’s incarnation, resurrection, and atoning work are in question. Since Christ’s pre-existence has been taught since the beginning of the early church and reaffirmed by the New Testament authors, the acceptance or rejection of this doctrine affects

Paul assumes that Christ’s pre-existence is something his audience has long since come to accept. He wrote to the church on matters of knowledge he believes is common to all believers. Paul declared to the Roman church that God sent His own Son as an offering for our sins. God’s love for his creation can be seen in his involvement in the death of Christ. This divine act was part of the early Christian Christological teachings of the pre-existence. Paul outlines Christ’s life culminating with his death on the cross and resurrection. Grace, righteousness, and justification are phrases specialty attributed to God himself, but in Paul’s writings he uses these attributes interchangeably with God and Jesus validating Paul’s pre-existence Christology. If Christ is not affirmed as the God’s pre-existent son, then the central texts of Paul’s letter is in jeopardy. The Hebrews Christ is both the creator of the world and the sustainer of all things. The author argues the superiority of the Son over the angels, and addresses him as Lord and God. The author uses verses in the Psalms that describe God authority over heaven and earth and connects these verses to Jesus authority. In his writings the author establishes the understanding of the very nature of Jesus and his pre-existence as part of the Godhead. Christ pre-existence is also implied through the Hebrew

This doctrine made me aware that as a human being we need to try not to commit sin although sometimes we cannot avoid it but atleast we can lessen the consequences. I am a roman catholic since until now but to be honest learning the bible through theology awakens my deeper desire of knowing Jesus Christ and God through studying the bible. Before I entered Theology I only have narrow understanding of bible and God’s word. But after knowing a lot of things in the bible specially the doctrine of incarnation and other doctrines, I feel like I started to have a deeper relationship with God. Through Doctrine of Incarnation it does aware me that God existed and as a human being living a life according to God’s word is possible as long as we always remember what God thought us and his Love is very important more than anything