Ori said:
It's pretty simple really, the body is subject to decay and eventually succumbs to old age.
So how could a God who is infinite, omnipotent, and beyond the laws of time become one of us?
I don't believe God could.
That was the problem then as it is today, originating from the Gnostics rooted from the word for knowledge and they believing that salvation was only from secret knowledge.
They also believ that matter was inherently evil and spirit was good
Therefore how could God come in the flesh in the person of Christ if matter was evil.
They question that God and the ministry and message of Christ as the God incarnate
There are many reasons for God coming in the person of Christ
Condemned sin in his flesh,satisfied the penalty for sin once and for all
Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the
likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Hbr 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ
once [
for all].
He bore(carried) our sins as the scape goat did in the old testament
1Pe 2:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
He was tempted and identified with our sorrow and grief
Hbr 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was
in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin.
He was made in our likeness so we could recognise and equate his obedience to what he required us to do.
Not so much that we should die at a cross ,but that we might die to the flesh and it's carnal nature
Phl 2:7But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
When he was tempted ,he was so so that he may help us in our temptation
Hbr 2:18For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
He took our sin on himself as the sacrifice
2Cr 5:21For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Hbr 10:4 For [it is] not possible that
the blood of bulls and of goats should
take away sins.
Abolished death and brought life
2Ti 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath
abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
Reconciled us to God
Eph 2:15 Having
abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, [so] making peace;
Eph 2:13But now you belong to Christ Jesus. Though you once were far away from God, now you have been brought near to him because of the blood of Christ.