Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine and I am a Dominican friar of the province of St Joseph.

I teach at the Dominican House of Studies and I work for the Tomistic Institute and this is Pines for the Aquinas.

In this episode, I'd like to go back to the basics.

I'd like to go back to one of the most important articles of the faith.

Because when you're thinking about our faith and you're trying to figure out

like, yeah, what's most most important at the end of the day

it's the triune God and the incarnate Lord and as Christians we just take the fact of

the incarnation for granted which is good I mean we take it for revealed which I suppose is different than taking it for granted.

But nevertheless, keep going for the Gregory.

We don't always stop to inquire why it is that our Lord Jesus Christ took human flesh and how it is that that that choice saves us.

So let's take some time together and consider it.

Here we go. So maybe you've heard of cool conversations that take place in the

Christian tradition regarding the incarnation. Certainly people ask

like whether or not the son of God

would have taken flesh had we not sinned.

If you don't see how that's important, yeah,

don't worry about it.

Don't spend too terribly much time pondering it.

But I mean, if you're interested, here we go.

There's a Franciscan position in the Middle Ages

where you have folks saying that if we hadn't sinned our Lord

would have still taken flesh because it represents like the culmination of

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