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• 1 John 3:8

  This verse states that whoever commits sin is of the devil and that the Son of God appeared in order to destroy the works of the devil. It is frequently cited in discussions of the purpose of the Incarnation, sanctification, and the believer's relationship to sin.

• Holiness

  Holiness (Korean seonggyeol, 聖潔) means being holy and pure. In the Wesleyan tradition, it refers to "entire sanctification," in which the believer is cleansed by grace from the inclination to sin and filled with perfect love.

• Holiness Movement

  A religious movement that arose within nineteenth-century American Methodism. Reviving John Wesley's doctrine of "Christian perfection," it taught that believers can attain complete holiness by faith. It gave rise to the Holiness churches and the Church of the Nazarene and laid the groundwork for the Pentecostal movement.

• Incarnation

  The Incarnation is a central Christian doctrine holding that the Son of God took on a human body and was born into the world as Jesus Christ. It expresses the confession that Christ is both true God and true man.

• Kenosis

  Kenosis (self-emptying) is a theological term for the incarnation and humiliation of Christ. It derives from Philippians 2:7, which says that Christ "made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant" and became a man.

• Athanasian Creed

  The Athanasian Creed is a confession of faith of the Western church that sets out the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation of Christ. Together with the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed, it is known as one of the "three ecumenical creeds."

• John 1:14

  A verse declaring that the Word, who existed from the beginning, became flesh and dwelt among people. It is the most concise statement of the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation and serves as a basis for confessing both the divinity and the humanity of Jesus.

• 1 John 4:2–3

  This passage makes the confession that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh the criterion for distinguishing the Spirit of God from the spirit of antichrist. It is frequently cited in support of confessing the Incarnation and in discussions of discerning spirits.

• Galatians 4:4

  Paul's declaration that, at the time God appointed, he sent his Son to be born as a human being and under the law. The verse distills the doctrine of the Incarnation and the true humanity of Christ and is frequently cited in Christmas sermons.

• 2 Corinthians 8:9

  A verse in which Paul, urging a collection for the saints in Jerusalem, says that Christ, though rich, became poor for the sake of believers. It is frequently cited as a text on the incarnation and as a basis for generous giving, and interpreters differ over the meaning of "rich."

• Hebrews 2:14–17

  A passage explaining that Christ took on the same flesh and blood as human beings in order to destroy the devil, who held the power of death, and to become a high priest who deals with the sins of the people. Because it addresses both the Incarnation and the atonement, it is frequently cited in discussions of Christology and the doctrine of the atonement.

• Luke 1:26-35

  In this passage the angel Gabriel appears to Mary, a virgin of Nazareth, and announces that she will conceive a son by the Holy Spirit and is to name him Jesus. It is a principal text for the confession of the virgin birth and the Incarnation and is frequently read during Advent and Christmas.

• Monophysitism

  Monophysitism is the Christological position that in the incarnate Jesus Christ the divine and human natures are united into a single nature. The Council of Chalcedon rejected it in 451 and confessed "two natures, one person" as orthodox teaching.

• Sinlessness of Christ

  The sinlessness of Christ is the Christian teaching that Jesus Christ, though he lived as a true human being, never sinned in thought, word, or deed.

• Recapitulation

  Recapitulation (anakephalaiōsis) is the soteriology developed by the second-century Church Father Irenaeus. It teaches that Christ retraced, from the beginning, the human path on which Adam failed, restoring it through obedience, and that he gathers all things together in himself.

• Preexistence of Christ

  The preexistence of Christ is the Christian doctrine that Jesus Christ existed with the Father before his human birth and before creation.

• Christmas

  A Christian feast commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed by most churches on December 25. In South Korea it is a statutory public holiday officially called "Gidok Tansinil" (the Day of Christ's Birth).

• Christology

  Christology is the field of Christian theology that deals with who Jesus Christ is and what he has done. It explains the person of Christ (his divinity and humanity) and his work (atonement, resurrection, and related themes).

• Council of Chalcedon

  The Council of Chalcedon was a church council convened in 451 by the Eastern Roman emperor Marcian. It adopted the Chalcedonian Definition, which confesses that Jesus Christ has two natures, divine and human, in one person.

• Flesh

  In the Bible, "flesh" refers to human flesh and the body, and more broadly to finite and frail human existence. In the Pauline epistles it can also denote the human inclination toward sin that stands opposed to the Holy Spirit.