From Scot McKnight's A Community Called Atonement:Incarnation is about the flow of life from God to us. . . . Here's the signficance: the incarnation, which sums up the entirety of Jesus' earthy existence (not just his birth), is an atoning moment. In the incarnation, God identifies with humans--all humans in all the dimensions of human life--to bring humans grace. He becomes what we are so we can become what he is.
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