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Incarnation: The is the teaching that God, the living Word, became Flesh and tabernacled among us. This is the cornerstone teaching of the New Testament. Jesus Christ is the Word became flesh without ceasing to be God. This is from the truth of the Trinity. The triune God has an 'opening' to His being in the person of Jesus Christ. Matthew 11:27 states that ...no one knows the Father but the Son and no one knows the Son but the Father and those whom the Son reveals Him to. It is only through and in Jesus that we are made to participate in the life of the Triune God, through the working of the Holy Spirit. In the life of the triune God is a life of knowing and being known between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The staggering truth is that in Jesus Christ, we partake of and participate in the union, communion and fellowship of this God through the working of the Holy Spirit. The same knowledge that God has of Himself is the same knowledge that we have of Him because we are in Jesus Christ. The only difference is that of the degree of knowledge. So the Christian life is a life awareness and discovery of the already objective reality of the Truth as it is in Jesus. We subjectively share in this relational reality by the activity of the Holy Spirit. In other words, we have been 'gathered up in Jesus Christ' to share in the life of the Triune God. This life is then 'fleshed' out in Jesus' body, the Church. In the church, the people of God, this life of the triune God is and is experienced. What is this? It is love. This is the theme of St. John chapter 17. Then through the Church, the world in made to experience the love of God. In essence this is how God reaches the world. God is for us. God was in Christ Jesus, reconciling the world to Himself, not holding their sins against them (2 Corinthians 5:19). This is the Gospel, the good news. We now invite humanity to come and accept the forgiveness and reconcilation that already objectively exist in Jesus Christ. Reconciliation is not just an act of God in Christ, but it is the very ontological reality of the Incarnation.