Genuine Salvation

Columbia University-New York Presbyterian Hospital has begun using robot mothers to simulate childbirth. The simulation includes Victoria and her robot baby, who cry and even bleed like humans. This gives nurses and doctors in training the opportunity to practice a live birth without any human risk. In the next room, a real person controls the robot mother and baby in order to make the simulation as realistic as possible.

Although there are certain benefits to simulation, nothing compares to genuine human experience. The Bible assures us that Christ was “born of a woman” (Galatians 4:4) to indicate that the act of salvation was genuine. Jesus had to become fully human in order to save humankind. The law of God did not call for the death of an angel, animal, or robot. It called for the death of a human (Hebrews 2:17).

Despite all of the animal sacrifices that took place before the death of Christ, no human would have been saved if He had not come. The Bible explains this fact when it states, “It is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins” (Hebrews 10:4).

Beyond satisfying the demands of the law, Christ’s genuine human nature also reconciled the entire human family back to God (2 Corinthians 5:18). This is because as a genuine human, Christ could take the place of Adam as the head of the human family: “The free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many” (Romans 5:15).

Although we may rejoice that heavenly angels are working as God’s servants in the plan of salvation, the human nature that Christ received remains the essential element.

Apply It:

Have a face-to-face conversation with someone you would normally contact using technology.

Dig Deeper:

Hebrews 10:5–7; 1 Corinthians 15:45, 47; Hebrews 2:9

Key Bible Texts

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, (Galatians 4:4 KJV)