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Glossary Term

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Approved rendering
ukwenza inyama
Transliteration
ukwenza inyama
Rejected alternatives
ukungena kumuntu (never use; evokes ancestral-spirit or amadlozi possession of a living person)

Incarnation

ukwenza inyama (‘became flesh,’ echoing John 1:14) is the doctrinally accurate phrase. ukungena kumuntu (‘to enter into a person’) must be avoided, as it would suggest a spirit temporarily entering or possessing an already-existing person, a traditional category (associated with amadlozi or ancestral-spirit presence) quite different from the eternal Son permanently and uniquely taking on full humanity from conception.

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