On the Incarnation

Chapter 1: The Divine Dilemma

For He was made man that we might be made God; and He manifested Himself by a body that we might receive the idea of the unseen Father; and He endured the insolence of men that we might inherit immortality.

For while He was thus incarnate and among men, He raised the dead, and cured the blind, and cleansed the lepers, and healed the paralytic, and restored the lame, and cast out demons, and did all other works which showed Him to be God.

But when the Jews saw these things, they were not moved to faith, but were rather hardened in their unbelief, and said that these works were not of God, but of Beelzebub. For they said, "It is by Beelzebub, the prince of demons, that He casts out demons."

But the Lord, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand. And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?"

For He was made man that we might be made God; and He manifested Himself by a body that we might receive the idea of the unseen Father; and He endured the insolence of men that we might inherit immortality.