1. How Do I Look?

2. Is Jesus God? The Historical Dispute
Is Jesus God? The answer to this question is the only real dispute surrounding the historical Jesus.
No legitimate scholar today denies that Jesus is a historic figure that walked on this earth about 2,000 years ago, that He did remarkable wonders and acts of charity, and that He died a horrible death on a Roman cross just outside Jerusalem.
The emotionally-charged dispute focuses specifically on whether Jesus was God incarnate who rose from the dead three days after His Crucifixion.

3. Is Jesus God? The Historical Dispute
Jesus has in abundance precisely those three qualities that liars and lunatics most conspicuously lack:
His practical wisdom, his ability to read human hearts, to understand people and the real, unspoken question behind their words, his ability to heal people's spirits as well as their bodies;
His deep and winning love, his passionate compassion, his ability to attract people and make them feel at home and forgiven, his authority, “not as the scribes”; and above all
His ability to astonish, his unpredictability, his creativity. No one who knows both the Gospels and human beings can seriously entertain the possibility that Jesus was a liar or a lunatic, a bad man.

4. Incarnation Textbook – Read Page 22 “Incarnation”
It is believed that Jesus, while living on earth, lived as one person fulfilling two natures, full divinity and genuine humanity. In other words, Jesus was fully human and fully God at the same time. This principle affirms that the Church, like Jesus is not simply a spiritual reality, but also an earthly one.
As Catholics, we believe that we are called to recognize that God uses the material, physical, and human experiences of life to direct our attention and love to him and to his work.
“The Word became flesh” (John 1:14)

5. Textbook – Read Page 22 “A Body Fit for God”
Answer the reflection questions in the text.
What can we learn from the fact that the Son of God came to Earth as an unborn child?
Life is sacred from the moment of conception until natural death.

6. What does Jesus’ suffering teach us about how we should respond to those who are sick or suffering?
We should not be scared of suffering. Our world does not see the fruit in suffering and tries to avoid it at all costs. Suffering is where we learn about ourselves, and we learn to be dependent on God.
What can we learn about human dignity from the fact that Jesus’ wounds were not healed in the resurrection?
A perfect body is not the only type of body that is accepted by God.

7. Why God Became Man
There are at least three reasons why the Word became Flesh:
In order to save us from sin.
It is as if the governor voluntarily became a prisoner and went to the electric chair in place of the prisoner, to set the murderer free. He came to die.
So that we might know God’s love
Jesus was the best way that we could come to know God.
To be our model of holiness
To show us the ideal way to live. It is possible to live as Jesus did.