The human conscience
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First and foremost Our Divine Lord, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity eternally existed long before anyone or anything was created. For all eternity it was the will of God to create free-willed creatures. Our Lord Jesus Christ, the one mediator of God and men by taking on a human nature gives us something in common with God in His sacred humanity.1 Jesus, true God and true Man is the head of His Mystical Body and so it was appropriately necessary that He became man so that we could have the possibility of being in communion with God.
The primary reason Our Lord condescended from Heaven to earth was to accomplish the will of God the Father. Christ has two natures, a divine nature and a human nature with a divine will and a human will, substantially united to the one will of the Father.2 Christ always surrendered and submitted his human will, through obedience to the majesty and irresistible will of God the Father. God simply willed that the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity in the Person of Jesus Christ, in complete union with the one God, to condescend from Heaven to earth.
The Father lovingly sent his only begotten eternal Son to redeem mankind from sin and death.3 And the passion and death of his Son Jesus Christ served as a fitting way to show us God's great love for us as well as the horror and ugliness of sin. At the same time we must not forget that His resurrection from the dead gives us great hope that we may also one day rise from the death of sin.
The perfect justice of God demands that satisfaction be made for all offenses committed against Him. It is appropriately necessary that the damage done by sin had to be repaired from within humanity. The debt of sin needed to be made from within the family of the offenders, Adam and Eve, within humanity and not in the Divinity, for clearly the Divinity made no offense. "The gravity of the injury is measured according to the dignity of the person offended."4 Adam's sin, though finite, was committed against an infinite God, thereby technically making the offense infinite in measure and gravity. This is why no sacrifice from within humanity before Christ could repair the damage done by sin, but was a prefigurement of the Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross. The only sacrifice that could repair the effects of sin had to be done by God Himself. The only offering worthy of God is God Himself. And so, Jesus Christ, the second Person of the Blessed Trinity, a Divine Person, true God and true Man, became Incarnate by the Power of the Holy Spirit born of the Blessed Virgin Mary, appeased the righteous wrath of God the Father, redeeming all men and saving many.
1. 1 Timothy 2:5, John 14:6
2. Luke 22:42
3. John 3:16-17
4. Blessed Abbot Joseph Columba Marmion, O.S.B.