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                                                                                                     What                                                                                                      What Is "Incarnation"?

1. For Christians, Jesus is understood to be the act of God, and so the event through which God's salvation is decisively revealed. Thus the significance of Jesus for Christians is that it is by reason of their encounter with him through the church's witness that they have become certain of the grace of God. Conversely, the only thing that Christians mean by "Jesus" when they assert that he is the Christ -- in this or any other functionally equivalent formulation -- is the event that thus authorizes their certainty of God's grace.

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