Preface I of advent

[simpleas]

What is meant by lowliness of human flesh as described below :
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PREFACE I OF ADVENT

It is truly right and just,
our duty and our salvation,
always and everywhere to give you thanks,
Lord, holy Father,
almighty and eternal God,
through Christ our Lord.

For he assumed at his first coming the lowliness of human flesh,
and so fulfilled the design you formed long ago,
and opened for us the way to eternal salvation,
that, when he comes again in glory and majesty
and all is at last made manifest,
we who watch for that day may inherit the great promise
in which now we dare to hope.

And so, with Angels and Archangels,
with Thrones and Dominions,
and with all the hosts and Powers of heaven,
we sing the hymn of your glory,
as without end we acclaim:

Holy, Holy, Holy…*

I, in part understand that we are lower than God, Angels etc, but how did God take on “the lowliness of human flesh” when he was without sin?

Fulfilled the design you formed long ago

Is this in reference to Adam alone, or all of creation?

Hearing it at Mass, made me think, we are made in the image and likeness of God, even after the O.S, but we are less than Adam was in some way?

 

[TimothyH]

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. (Phillipians 2:5-8)

 

[simpleas]

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. (Phillipians 2:5-8)

Thanks.

My question then would be, we are to imitate Jesus, even though we are not God/gods?

We don’t find ourselves in human form, we are human, created to be human.

Soul and matter as one.

 

[Neofight]

Thanks.

My question then would be, we are to imitate Jesus, even though we are not God/gods?

We don’t find ourselves in human form, we are human, created to be human.

Soul and matter as one.

Actually, we were created to not be human, but to be divine…the Fall of Man could have changed that had it not been for God’s salvation plan and with it the incarnation.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church gives the answer, which many find surprising:

460 The Word became flesh to make us “partakers of the divine nature: “For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God. “For the Son of God became man so that we might become God.” “The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods.”

 

[simpleas]

Actually, we were created to not be human, but to be divine…the Fall of Man could have changed that had it not been for God’s salvation plan and with it the incarnation.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church gives the answer, which many find surprising:

460 The Word became flesh to make us “partakers of the divine nature: “For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God. “For the Son of God became man so that we might become God.” “The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods.”

Thanks.

We are physical beings though, made of the earth, matter and of spirit. What exactly was Adam?

He was both too, not divine and not just a creature as in an animal. He wasn’t a god, yet he lost the grace that would have made him one? He was already a partaker in divine nature?

These are not statements of fact from me, just thinking out loud and pondering meanings.