HUMAN-SIZED
GOD

Topics: Incarnation; Jesus Christ; Jesus, One with the Father

References: John 1:18; Colossians 1:15–20

A village had a statue so immense that you couldn’t see exactly what it represented. Someone finally miniaturized the statue so one could see the person it honored.

“That is what God did in his Son,” said the early church father Origen. Paul tells us Christ is the visible icon or image of the invisible God (Colossians 1). In Christ we have God in a comprehensible way. In Christ we have God’s own personal and definitive visit to the planet.

—Dale Bruner, “Is Jesus Inclusive or Exclusive?” Theology, News & Notes (October 1999)