What is happening in these pictures?
What links these pictures?
What makes you think this?
Who is in the picture?
What story are these pictures
trying to tell?
What is the message?
The Incarnation
Incarnation: The word incarnate
means ‘in flesh’.
What are these pictures trying to
tell us about the incarnation?
Learning Objective: To enquire into the
idea of the incarnation and evaluate its
importance for Christians today.
Wedge of Sin = The incarnation
The word ‘incarnation’ means ‘in flesh’.
Christians believe that Jesus was God incarnate
or God in human form.
They believe that Jesus acts as a bridge between
the human world which is full of sin and heaven
where they can live eternally with God.
If Christians believe in God and seek forgiveness
for their sins, they can enter heaven.
Wedge of Sin
GOD
What has
happened
to
separate
them?
JE S US
I
N
HUMANS
How can
we bridge
the gap?
The Nativity
Christians believe that Jesus was the incarnation
and was born in a stable.
As you know from our previous lesson, the idea
of the nativity shows that Jesus was humble.
However, would it be different if it happened
again?
Learning Objective: To enquire into the idea of the
incarnation and evaluate its importance for
Christians today.
If you were God and came to live on earth for a while,
what would you choose?
What would you look like?
Where would you live?
What job would you have?
But how is Jesus the incarnation?
Watch the following clip from The Lord of the Rings; the
two towers.
The situation for Aragorn and King Theodin ​is desperate as
they have been fighting all night and most of their forces
have been crushed​
They face a no-win situation: Stay and fight and die, or ride
out and fight and die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51oEk21ax5A
But how does that relate to Jesus?
• Things weren’t going well for Aragorn and King
Theodin. Gandalf turned up and saved the day.
He was their ​Saviour​.
• Christians believe that Jesus was sent as the
incarnation to humanity when things weren’t
going well.
• Christians believe that if they are sorry for their
sins they can be forgiven through the sacrifice of
Jesus and live eternally in heaven with God.
Is the incarnation important for Jesus
today?
Key word bank:
How many key words can you use in your written
reflection?
Saviour
Forgiveness
Sin
Jesus
Eternal Life
Heaven
Humility
God
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