At the Easter vigil we sing a beautiful song of praise that has the line: “Oh happy fault, oh necessary sin of Adam, that won for us so great a redeemer.” From this perspective Jesus was sent from God to repair the broken relationship between God and the world. However, St. Paul, particularly in his letters to Ephesus and Colossi, has a different point of view. He expresses the idea that the incarnation of the Son of God in creation was part of the divine plan from the beginning. “God chose us in him, before the foundation of the world…In love he destined us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ.” As the Greek Fathers put it, God became a human being so that human beings could become God.
