The Confrontation with Death
When the Lord was born of the Virgin, He was born without a physical father, not because He hates marriage, but because natural birth is a birth that does not last and is struck by death, whereas spiritual birth from the Holy Spirit is a birth that overcomes death. Thus, the first confrontation between the Lord and death was in the manger of Bethlehem, because He took on a complete human nature, as the Church says: "He became like us in all things except sin alone," and He took the nature susceptible to death in the manger and made it a living nature through union with His hypostasis, overcoming sin by living in it before being sacrificed on the cross. And when He came to Golgotha, He made His holy, complete nature face death itself, which has no root in sin, because the Lord was without sin, but He came to death. Here, death is not an external force the Lord faces outside His being, but a force within His being. The Lord offered Himself, removing the desire for survival and separation from the Father that was in Adam, and destroyed it by freely offering Himself—unconstrained. Thus, He removed from human nature its reliance on itself for survival—the same human nature formed by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Theotokos, which relied entirely on union and the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
From here, we must realize that the Lord Jesus did not die the same death as Adam but died the death of the cross, thereby lifting the judgment of death through His death.
#VictoryOverDeath #Incarnation #HypostaticUnion #Golgotha #Salvation #Theotokos
When the Lord was born of the Virgin, He was born without a physical father, not because He hates marriage, but because natural birth is a birth that does not last and is struck by death, whereas spiritual birth from the Holy Spirit is a birth that overcomes death. Thus, the first confrontation between the Lord and death was in the manger of Bethlehem, because He took on a complete human nature, as the Church says: "He became like us in all things except sin alone," and He took the nature susceptible to death in the manger and made it a living nature through union with His hypostasis, overcoming sin by living in it before being sacrificed on the cross. And when He came to Golgotha, He made His holy, complete nature face death itself, which has no root in sin, because the Lord was without sin, but He came to death. Here, death is not an external force the Lord faces outside His being, but a force within His being. The Lord offered Himself, removing the desire for survival and separation from the Father that was in Adam, and destroyed it by freely offering Himself—unconstrained. Thus, He removed from human nature its reliance on itself for survival—the same human nature formed by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Theotokos, which relied entirely on union and the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
From here, we must realize that the Lord Jesus did not die the same death as Adam but died the death of the cross, thereby lifting the judgment of death through His death.
#VictoryOverDeath #Incarnation #HypostaticUnion #Golgotha #Salvation #Theotokos
⚔️ The Confrontation with Death ⚔️
When the Lord was born of the Virgin, He was born without a physical father, not because He hates marriage, but because natural birth is a birth that does not last and is struck by death, whereas spiritual birth from the Holy Spirit is a birth that overcomes death. Thus, the first confrontation between the Lord and death was in the manger of Bethlehem, because He took on a complete human nature, as the Church says: "He became like us in all things except sin alone," and He took the nature susceptible to death in the manger and made it a living nature through union with His hypostasis, overcoming sin by living in it before being sacrificed on the cross. And when He came to Golgotha, He made His holy, complete nature face death itself, which has no root in sin, because the Lord was without sin, but He came to death. Here, death is not an external force the Lord faces outside His being, but a force within His being. The Lord offered Himself, removing the desire for survival and separation from the Father that was in Adam, and destroyed it by freely offering Himself—unconstrained. Thus, He removed from human nature its reliance on itself for survival—the same human nature formed by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Theotokos, which relied entirely on union and the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
From here, we must realize that the Lord Jesus did not die the same death as Adam but died the death of the cross, thereby lifting the judgment of death through His death.
#VictoryOverDeath #Incarnation #HypostaticUnion #Golgotha #Salvation #Theotokos