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God's WORD became flesh, but not GOD THE FATHER who has always remained transcendent & aloof, "no man has seen the father" except eventually elect Saints in the Beatific VisionYou might want to ponder on what it means when we say "Christ wrapped himself in our humanity" or "Christ became flesh to redeem us". This does sound as though Christ was the active creator; but in truth that paradigm is rooted in this thought that God creates everything without human involvement. It places us as passive recipients of God's acts. I think that this is one pitfall that can come from TULIP, the thought that we are powerless, predestined either to hell or heaven. As a good parent, God wants us to stand on our own two feet and choose him as a personal act of faith. This is what Mary did. She made an active choice to become Christ's mother and to participate in the wondrous mystery of the Incarnation. Isn't the thought that God, Himself, choose to become man in all ways, even to being grown as a baby inside a woman taking on her flesh, a more glorious idea than Mary somehow being only a surrogate of a preconceived fetus that shared none of her humanity?
Mary chose to willingly bear God's WORD in her womb, being God the Father's "handmaiden"
The God The Father did not incarnate, correct ? Rather, His WORD incarnated, correct ?
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