an incarnate being or form. a living being embodying a deity or spirit. assumption of human form or nature. the Incarnation , (sometimes lowercase)Theology. the doctrine that the second person of the Trinity assumed human form in the person of Jesus Christ and is completely both God and man.
For Christians, the incarnation shows that Jesus was fully God and fully human. It is an essential part of belief in the Trinity , and in many ways it forms the basis of Christianity.
Namely that Christ was literally both ‘Son of Man’ from his maternal side, and also literally ‘Son of God’ on his paternal side. The concept of the incarnation —”the Word became flesh and dwelt among us”— was understood as the literal word or logos of Ps. 33:6 having been made human by a virgin birth.
The major religions that hold a belief in reincarnation, however, are Asian religions, especially Hinduism , Jainism , Buddhism , and Sikhism , all of which arose in India.
For them the death of Jesus was part of a divine plan to save humanity. The death and resurrection of this one man is at the very heart of the Christian faith. For Christians it is through Jesus’s death that people’s broken relationship with God is restored. This is known as the Atonement.
Incarnation , central Christian doctrine that God became flesh, that God assumed a human nature and became a man in the form of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the second person of the Trinity. Christ was truly God and truly man.
The incarnation is the Christian belief that God took human form by becoming Jesus . It literally means to take on flesh. The incarnation means that for Catholics, Jesus is fully God and fully human.
There is One God, who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit . Other ways of referring to the Trinity are the Triune God and the Three-in-One.
A heresy called Arius claimed just the opposite of Docetism. Arius held that Christ was God’s greatest creature who was made before time, but a creature nonetheless. Accordingly, Christ could not take on human flesh because this would mean that there are two God’s .
Christianity . In the major Christian denominations, the concept of reincarnation is absent and it is nowhere explicitly referred to in the Bible .
For the majority of Christian denominations, the Holy Spirit , or Holy Ghost, is the third person of the Trinity, the Triune God manifested as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit , each entity itself being God. In Christian theology, pneumatology refers to the study of the Holy Spirit .
The word Hindu is an exonym, and while Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, many practitioners refer to their religion as Sanātana Dharma (Sanskrit: सनातन धर्म: “the Eternal Way “), which refers to the idea that its origins lie beyond human history, as revealed in the Hindu texts.
Adherents in 2020
Religion | Adherents | Percentage |
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Christianity | 2.382 billion | 31.11% |
Islam | 1.907 billion | 24.9% |
Secular/Nonreligious/ Agnostic / Atheist | 1.193 billion | 15.58% |
Hinduism | 1.161 billion | 15.16% |
However, the different eastern religions like Hinduism , Jainism , and Buddhism have differed in their faith on rebirth. Further, the Islam as well as the most dominant religion of the world, Christianity , having its origin in the west, have largely denied reincarnation, though some sub-sects still show interest in it.