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The Incarnations of Christ

Last updated on: December 29, 2025 at 6:45 pm by Keith Giles

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The Incarnations of Christ 2025-12-29T18:45:48+00:00 Keith Giles

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When many people think about the Incarnation, they imagine a single miraculous moment in history when God was wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

But the Incarnation is far more than a story of something God once did. It is a revelation of something God is always doing.

John’s Gospel begins with an extraordinary vision: the Word [LOGOS], the Divine organizing principle of love itself, was not only with God, but was God, and this same Divine Life “became flesh and dwelt among us.”

The early followers of Jesus slowly awakened to this reality.

First, they saw him as the Messiah in the Gospel of Mark. Then as the Son of God in Mathew and Luke, and finally, in John’s Gospel, as the cosmic Christ; the very heartbeat of creation revealed in all humanity.

But here is where the story becomes even more astonishing: The Incarnation was never meant to point only to Jesus. It was meant to awaken us to ourselves.

Because once God united fully with humanity in Christ, something fundamental changed. Humanity was no longer seen as something separate from the Divine.

When Christ took on flesh, it also meant that all flesh took on Christ.

Through Christ, God and humanity now share a mystical union that invites every human being into transformation, renewal, and divine participation

The Incarnation is not the exception; it’s the universal pattern. Spirit expresses itself through matter. Divine Love clothes itself in human skin. God does not hover above creation… God inhabits it.

This means that Jesus didn’t try to show us what God looks like instead of us.
He came to show us what God looks like in us.

He never said, “Worship me because I am unlike you.”
He said, “Abide in me and you will do even greater things than I do.”

In other words, the Incarnation is not simply about God becoming human in Jesus. It is about God revealing that humanity has always been capable of bearing Divine Life.

Christ is not just a name.
Christ is a consciousness.
Christ is a shared nature.

The early Church understood this more boldly than many modern Christians do. Leaders like Athanasius, Irenaeus, Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, and others openly proclaimed that God became human so that humans could awaken to their divine nature

They weren’t saying we replace God. They were saying we participate in God. We become radiant with the same love, the same compassion, the same conscious union that Jesus embodied.

In other words, if God is the One in whom we all live and move and have our being, then we are the ones in whom God lives, and moves and has being.

This is why your body matters.
Your emotions matter.
Your human life matters.

Matter itself is holy enough to hold God.
Your life, the ordinary and the sacred, the messy and the beautiful, is a vessel of God’s Divine Presence.

Every act of forgiveness is an Incarnation.
Every step toward compassion is an Incarnation.
Every courageous act of love is an Incarnation.

Because you are not separate from God, and never have been, and never will be, or even could be.

And what does that mean for us right now?

It means we are the Body of Christ in the world today.

Not metaphorically.
Not symbolically.

Christ has no body now but yours.
No voice now but yours.
No presence in the world except the presence you embody.

Whatever you are doing in the world is what Christ is doing in the world.

So look into the mirror and remember:
You are not distant from the Divine.
You are not waiting for God to arrive.
You are the place where God shows up.

Christ lives in you.
Christ breathes through you.
Christ loves the world through you.

The miracle of the Incarnation did not end in Bethlehem.
It continues in every life awakened to love,
in every heart open to unity,
in every soul that dares to remember: We are the Body of Christ, united with God and with one another. We are the ongoing Incarnation.

Immanuel.
God with us.
God within us.

God as us.

My new book, “The Quantum Gospel of Mary and the Lost Gospel of Truth” is now available on Amazon.

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Keith Giles is the best-selling author of the Jesus Un series. He has been interviewed on CNN with Anderson Cooper, Coast to Coast Radio with George Noory, USA Today, BuzzFeed, and John Fugelsang’s “Tell Me Everything.” He co-hosts The Heretic Happy Hour Podcast and his solo podcast, Second Cup With Keith which are both available on Spotify, Amazon, Apple, Podbean or wherever you find great podcasts.

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