Why Did God Take On Our Humanity?
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
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🗓️ 11 March 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Every Christmas we celebrate the fact that Jesus took on our humanity and became one of us. But have we ever asked the question why? Why the Incarnation?
You’re definitely not the first to ask this question, and it’s a valid question. Why would God, an all infinite, perfect, and perfectly whole being come to earth to live as a human, and even die a horrible death on the cross? There is nothing he lacks, nothing he doesn’t know, and nothing he needs from us. So, why did he become man? Fr. Mike aims to answer this question today.
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| 0:00.0 | Every Christmas, we celebrate the incarnation, right? |
| 0:01.7 | Every Christmas, we celebrate the fact that God became one of us. |
| 0:04.9 | Have you ever stopped to ask the question, why? |
| 0:20.2 | Hi, my name is Fr. Mike Schmitz, |
| 0:21.2 | and this is Ascension Presents, |
| 0:22.4 | why did God become a human being? |
| 0:25.4 | I was talking with a man recently, |
| 0:26.7 | and he said, is it because he wanted to know what it was like to be one of us? |
| 0:32.8 | Is it that God wanted to know, |
| 0:35.7 | like what's the experience of the human person on this planet? |
| 0:39.6 | And that's why he became one of us. |
| 0:41.0 | And that's a really great answer. |
| 0:43.1 | It reveals that we don't necessarily know the depth of who God truly is, |
| 0:48.0 | or what even God truly is, |
| 0:49.4 | because what we believe about God is that God is, |
| 0:51.6 | when we say God is omniscient in the sense of He knows everything that it is to know, |
| 0:55.5 | He knows everything there is to know. |
| 0:56.9 | That's what we're saying. |
| 0:57.8 | He doesn't lack anything. |
| 0:58.9 | He didn't lack knowledge. |
| 0:59.9 | He didn't lack what it was, |
| 1:00.9 | knowing what it was like to live as a human being. |
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