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How Can God Become Man if God Can’t Change?

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One of the defining attributes of God is that He is immutable, meaning He isn’t subject to change.

We know this through philosophical reasoning because at the foundation of reality there has to be one being who is purely actual without any potency, and we call this being God.

We also know about God’s immutability through the witness of Sacred Scripture:

For I the LORD do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed. (Mal 3:6)
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever. (Heb 13:8)
Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. (Jas 1:17)


The doctrine of divine immutability is further affirmed in the Church’s liturgical life, such as in the great Hymn of the Incarnation chanted after the Second Antiphon in the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom:

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