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                One of the more difficult things for us human beings to contemplate is that our God, specifically the Son, is a man named Jesus Christ. This is hard thing for us to understand for a few reasons. There is the simple fact that fitting God into a man is a difficult proposition. After all, how does any human being have the capacity to contain the Almighty God? Besides this, there is an assumption that this material world is too base, dirty, unclean, even gross for the pure and holy God. After all, sin and death lurk here, and God wants nothing to do with these things.

                While you Christians have heard this truth, that God has become a man, often enough to have become habituated to it, this proposition often shocks, confuses, and upsets those who are outside of the Christian faith. More to the point, there is something of an instinctual revulsion, a deep-seated nervousness around this idea.

                Why is this the case? Why do we human beings have this strong dislike of the idea that God would become a man?