{"id":3549,"date":"2016-07-06T14:12:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T21:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=3549"},"modified":"2016-07-06T14:12:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T21:12:57","slug":"why-god-stepped-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2016\/why-god-stepped-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Why God Stepped Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/that-it-might-be-fulfilled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/that-it-might-be-fulfilled.jpg\" alt=\"The Scriptures say in Matthew 2:23 -- That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets\" title=\"God's Word says: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets (Matthew 2:23)\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"width:400px; height:300px\" \/><\/a>Here is my second draft summary of some of God&#8217;s purposes in the Incarnation:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"margin-top:-1.2em\">\n<li>Live a sinless life.<\/li>\n<li>Learn obedience through suffering.<\/li>\n<li>Be touched with the feelings of our infirmities.<\/li>\n<li>Give us an example.<\/li>\n<li>Defeat the devil.<\/li>\n<li>Vanquish death.<\/li>\n<li>Bear our sins and make atonement for them.<\/li>\n<li>Become our faithful High Priest.<\/li>\n<li>Rise again for our justification.<\/li>\n<li>Redeem us to God.<\/li>\n<li>Gain our victory over the flesh and sin.<\/li>\n<li>Make effective blood shed in the Old Testament systems of sacrifices.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Please help me refine the list<\/strong> with your comments below. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Why did Jesus come in the flesh?<\/p>\n<p>Why did the Son of God become the Son of Man as well?<\/p>\n<p>What prompted Deity to put on humanity?<\/p>\n<p>Again, please help me with this project by <strong>adding your perspective below<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple overview of the Eternal Spirit&#8217;s objectives in taking on mortal flesh<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[72,686,1060],"class_list":["post-3549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","tag-christianity","tag-faith","tag-theology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-Vf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}