Logic and Creation
The Word made everything out of _______?
Nothing
Was the body of the Word a real human body?
Yes
Why did Jesus have to die on the cross and not privately?
Because sickness is a sign of natural weakness; how could He fall sick who had healed others?
Question: Like _______ cast into the earth and rise?
Seeds
Only the Image of the Father could recreate the _______ of the Image in Man?
Likeness
What is unique about the human body of the Word?
It was formed from a virgin.
Why had His body not fallen sick?
Because otherwise the healing miracles would not have been believed.
Did Christ not hunger?
He hungered because that was the property of His body, but He did not die from hunger.
Why, before Christ, did all have to die?
In fulfillment of the threat of the Law.
Since the human body of the Word, like other bodies, was liable to death, the indwelling of the Word loosed it from that liability. So, what could not touch the Word's body?
Corruption
Why not just quietly die and resurrect?
Because the salvation would have been considered a story, as there would be no evidence to support the resurrection.
What is the symbol of outstretched arms according to Saint Athanasius?
That He might draw His ancient people with one and the Gentiles with the other, joining all together in Himself.
The reason why the Word dwelt among us is for teaching men about Him and for ______________?
Paying the debt.
What are the two opposite marvels that took place at once?
The death of all was consummated in the Lord’s body; yet, because the Word was in it, death and corruption were in the same act utterly abolished.
Why did the Word not choose an honorable death?
Because His power over death would have been perceived as limited to an honorable death. In other words, no matter how the death happened, He had victory over it.
Jesus, by being “lifted up,” cleansed the air from __________?
All the evil influences of the enemy.