The Six Names of Christmas -- Immanuel: God with Us

The New Testament opens in the Gospels with Matthew and Luke introducing God—as He invades humanity.

God who came to enter the world and take upon Himself humanity was God the Son, Jesus Christ. This incarnation is described in the term Son of Man as God the Son becomes 100% man—yet without sin.

Christ is first introduced as this Son of Man with the genealogies that open Matthew and also are listed in Luke. Christ came as the Son of Adam, as well as through the family line as also the Son of Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and David.

So when God invades the Earth He comes as the 100% human descendant of Adam, through a family line that stretched unbroken from the Garden of Eden, through the total defilement of pre-Flood humanity, into the ark, out through the mountains and deserts of the Middle East, into the palaces of the kings of Israel and then Judah, through the Exile and finally born as a member of the line of the faithful remnant in the 1st Century worshipers at Herod's Temple to God.

Christ's coming was first presented as the coming of a human, the Son of Man, encompassing all of mankind in our needy condition, weaknesses and frailties—yet of course He comes always without sin.