Genesis 1:31
And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
The creation of the world was not the downgrade of the cosmos. Creating matter didn’t ruin the perfect immaterial ether anymore than Jesus was ruined by becoming fully man. Making something doesn't always make a mess of something else.
John 1:1, 14
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
The stuff did not ruin the spiritual. The material did not tarnish the meta. Grace and truth are not worse for having been embodied. They are not pure as concepts, but compromised as actions. They are pristine in the packaging and devalued by being played with. Love is not worse for being displayed. Holiness is no less high for bending down low.
2 Corinthians 5:21
For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
Jesus became a man in a crib. This was not a sin.
He became sin on a cross. This saved us from ours.
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