Posted on 11/18/2004 9:57:08 PM PST by UnbornChild
During Advent, it's easy to neglect the fact that Christ existed before his birth. We're so focused on his arrival in human society, that we forget that Christ adopted our human nature from the moment of conception. Christ did not incarnate into a non-human amorphous piece of tissue. It would have been beneath his dignity. He doesn't love tissue. Tissue is not made in God's image and likeness.
God became like us because he loved us; he became an unborn child because he loved the unborn child, like he loves Man at all the stages of his life. In fact, Christ has a special place in his heart for the unborn, as he does for all who are marginalized, weak, poor and vulnerable.
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