This comparison, of course, of statues, as belonging to material things, is employed for no other purpose than to show that the Son of God, though placed in the very insignificant form of a human body, in consequence of the resemblance of His works and power to the Father, showed that there was in Him an immense and invisible greatness, inasmuch as He said to His disciples,"He who sees Me, sees the Father also," and "I and the Father are one." And to these belong also the similar expression, "The Father is in Me, and I in the Father." (Book I, Chapter 2, Part 8)

That we understand Christ to be the Incarnation - the manifestation of God in a human body - is of profound significance.

In the life of Jesus, his joy, suffering, and death, we know that God is with us. God is here, now, within the realm of our experience.

By assuming human form God confirms the sacred potential of human experience. The body and blood of Jesus - and each of us - are sacramental, embodying spiritual reality.