Incarnation

CRITICAL: shared established Chinese Christian phrase (echoing John 1:14). NEVER use 化身 (a deity or bodhisattva’s temporary, repeatable manifestation — Guanyin is popularly said to appear in 化身 form to help people) or 顯靈 (a deity ‘manifesting its power’ at a shrine, a common Hong Kong temple-culture phrase). The incarnation is a permanent, unique, once-for-all taking of human nature by the eternal Son.