RECONCILING THE INCARNATION WITH THE ETERNAL GOD

Man is temporal and finite. We can't conceive of the concept of the eternal God beyond space and time.  In this Christmas episode of the Lord of Spirits (playlist) Father Andrew Stephen Damick and Father Stephen de Young are doing a heroic effort to make the inconceivable understandable. Father Stephen explains that Western Christian theologies don't explain this problem at all. Judaism and Islam propose a solution that does not work. Pagans do not even have this difficulty, since their gods are in time and space. So how can we reconcile the Incarnation of Christ with the Eternal God? 

Dec. 25, 2025 Ancient Faith: Lord of Spirits - Yesterday, Today & Forever [Ep. 130].

The icon of this episode depicts God in the Old Testament, who in Eastern Orthodoxy is Christ. The Hymn of Kassiani includes "I will kiss Thy feet whose tread, when it fell on the ears of Eve in Paradise." Fathers Andrew and Stephen discuss how can this be? 

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