Well, there are many ways, and there are many thoughts about it. But for today, there’s just one thing that we really must say; that we have to say. And that is that Jesus, as the Christ, had to be the final messianic prophet. And therefore, He had to show the truth. And He had to be the truth. And He had to show God’s truth. And He had to, not only pronounce it and preach it, He had to live it, actualize it, realize it.
And if the truth is that God is love and that God ultimately loves us and that God created us free, knowing that we would sin and our world would become cursed and sinful and dead and unjust, He did it and took it all upon Himself to show how loving He is. And it is loving.
Therefore, why God’s Son becomes man is to show the love of God; to give the ultimate prophetic word; to be the ultimate prophetic Word. And when He hangs dead on a cross, silent, He reveals the mystery of the truth of God and the truth of humanity too. That truth is that we too must love God perfectly. We must love the God who loves us.
And so Jesus reveals and actualizes the total love of God on the Cross. But He also shows a human life—the man Jesus; the one Mediator between God and man; the man that the Son of God became; Why He Became Man, Cur Deus Homo. He became man to reveal Got to us and to reveal us to ourselves.
As Bishop Kallistos Ware often would say, “God became man, not only to make divine, but to make man human,” to make humans human and to show what the perfect human life is when it is completely given to God. And that perfect human life is perfect when no matter what is happening, the person obeys God. The person trusts God. The person loves with the love of which God has loved us.