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During the Christmas season, much is said and sung about Jesus coming to earth. Many love the warm, gentle thoughts of a little Baby being born and having His birth announced by angels. But how many actually ever ask the question: Why did Jesus come? We can only answer that from the Bible. Because, even though there is historical evidence that Jesus did live in Palestine in the first century, the only revelation to be found concerning why He came, is to be found in the Bible.
Jesus, Himself, declared His reason for coming in Luke 19:10; there He stated,
“…the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
But what does lost mean? To understand that, we must first understand why God made man in the first place.
God said concerning the creation of man:
“…Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion…over all the earth…”
It was God’s intent that we should “look, live, and rule” in this earth just as He does in heaven and in earth. To do this God, Himself, would have to come to live inside us, and through us, look like Himself, live like Himself, and rule like Himself. So God gave us a choice as to whether we would let Him come to live in and through us in this world. We chose to Continue reading
