This Christmas, we’re asking the question, “Why Did God Become Human?” After all, that’s what we celebrate at Christmas. Jesus put on flesh and entered into the brokenness of creation as a human being, adding full humanity to his full deity. One reason he became human was to defeat sin. Jesus, while completely sinless, took on the full weight and punishment of sin for us so that we could go free and have life. Paul says it this way, “He who knew no sin became sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God.” That’s the Gospel in four words: Jesus in our place. Jesus became human to become sin for us to defeat it at the cross and make us truly alive!
At Christmas we celebrate the fact that God became human. Jesus, fully and eternally God, forever added full humanity to his deity at the incarnation. He is fully God and fully human. The question is, "Why?"
