Can Your View of God Survive the Incarnation?
Some say:
“God is three co-equal Persons—Father, Son, and Spirit.”
That’s Traditional Trinitarianism.
Others insist:
“No—there’s just one Person. Jesus is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”
That’s Oneness theology.
Still others claim:
“Only the Father is God. Jesus was a man, exalted—but not divine.”
That’s Uni-tarianism.
And some hold a rarer view:
“There are two divine Persons—the Father and the Son—but not the Spirit.”
That’s Bini-tarianism.
So who’s right?
“Can your view of God survive the Incarnation?”
Because the Incarnation is the real test.
If your theology collapses when Jesus walks, weeps, bleeds, prays, obeys, and dies… then it’s not built on the Gospel.
And will give a distorted image of God.
The Real Problem Was Death—Not Just Sin
Romans 5:12 (NHEB) Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all people, because all sinned.
Romans 8:3 (NHEB) For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh.
• The Law wasn’t broken—we were.
• The Law could have saved—if we could have kept it.
• Just one sinless man could have broken death’s reign.
Romans 6:23 (NHEB) The wages of sin is death.
Romans 5:19 (NHEB) By the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Jesus gave death a problem it couldn’t solve: A sinless man in its grasp.
Acts 3:15 (NHEB) You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead.
Zechariah 9:11 (NHEB) Because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
Death made itself a debtor to Christ.
Proverbs 6:31 (CEV) Thieves who get caught must pay back seven times what was stolen and lose everything.
Revelation 1:18 (NHEB) I was dead, but look, I am alive forevermore. I have the keys of Death and of Hell.
• Death didn’t just lose its grip—it lost its throne.
• It no longer holds the keys.
• It no longer makes the rules.
It Took a Man
The reversal of death’s verdict required more than a miracle—it required a man.
1 Corinthians 15:21 (NHEB) Since death came by a man, the resurrection of the dead also came by a man.
Jesus wasn’t pretending to be human.
He was human.
Matthew 4:4 (NHEB) He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’’”
It All Hinges on This One Moment
John 1:14 (NHEB) The Word became flesh.
God didn’t save us by staying above us.
He saved us by becoming one of us.
God, through His Word, became man—truly, fully, and forever.
Are you chasing a distant God—or walking with Jesus, Immanuel, the God who came to walk with you?
Let Him fill you, lead you, and show you what it means to truly live as a child of God.
Some say:
“God is three co-equal Persons—Father, Son, and Spirit.”
That’s Traditional Trinitarianism.
Others insist:
“No—there’s just one Person. Jesus is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”
That’s Oneness theology.
Still others claim:
“Only the Father is God. Jesus was a man, exalted—but not divine.”
That’s Uni-tarianism.
And some hold a rarer view:
“There are two divine Persons—the Father and the Son—but not the Spirit.”
That’s Bini-tarianism.
So who’s right?
“Can your view of God survive the Incarnation?”
Because the Incarnation is the real test.
If your theology collapses when Jesus walks, weeps, bleeds, prays, obeys, and dies… then it’s not built on the Gospel.
And will give a distorted image of God.
The Real Problem Was Death—Not Just Sin
Romans 5:12 (NHEB) Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all people, because all sinned.
Romans 8:3 (NHEB) For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh.
• The Law wasn’t broken—we were.
• The Law could have saved—if we could have kept it.
• Just one sinless man could have broken death’s reign.
Romans 6:23 (NHEB) The wages of sin is death.
Romans 5:19 (NHEB) By the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Jesus gave death a problem it couldn’t solve: A sinless man in its grasp.
Acts 3:15 (NHEB) You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead.
Zechariah 9:11 (NHEB) Because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
Death made itself a debtor to Christ.
Proverbs 6:31 (CEV) Thieves who get caught must pay back seven times what was stolen and lose everything.
Revelation 1:18 (NHEB) I was dead, but look, I am alive forevermore. I have the keys of Death and of Hell.
• Death didn’t just lose its grip—it lost its throne.
• It no longer holds the keys.
• It no longer makes the rules.
It Took a Man
The reversal of death’s verdict required more than a miracle—it required a man.
1 Corinthians 15:21 (NHEB) Since death came by a man, the resurrection of the dead also came by a man.
Jesus wasn’t pretending to be human.
He was human.
Matthew 4:4 (NHEB) He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’’”
It All Hinges on This One Moment
John 1:14 (NHEB) The Word became flesh.
God didn’t save us by staying above us.
He saved us by becoming one of us.
God, through His Word, became man—truly, fully, and forever.
Are you chasing a distant God—or walking with Jesus, Immanuel, the God who came to walk with you?
Let Him fill you, lead you, and show you what it means to truly live as a child of God.
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