@thescottbarber I don’t know how you can say that God must create in a way that makes sense to us, and then reference the incarnation—as if that could ever be something comprehensible to us.
“This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me ... teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.”
Matthew 15:8–9
If we teach man's commandments as doctrines, then our hearts are far from God. Above all, God desires that we love Him and all that He loves.
"Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord." Hebrews 12:14
If we can't live peaceably with everyone, then we are unfit for the kingdom of God.
"In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood." Hebrews 12:4
Consider Jesus who uncompromisingly resisted sin to the point of shedding His blood. He resisted "to the point of death, even death on a cross"(Philippians 2:8).
"And you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one." Hebrews 10:34
Once of the marks of a true believer is to joyfully accept loss because of the better, abiding possession we have in Jesus.
"Then [Christ] added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second." Hebrews 10:9
The establishment of our salvation is grounded in Jesus' submission to the Father's will--not in our worth or works.
"For it was fitting that he ... should make make the founder of salvation perfect through suffering." Hebrews 2:10
Christ is the perfect founder of our salvation because He faced the same suffering that each believer has endured, and triumphed.
"We are a cathedral made of people
In a kingdom that the eye can't see
We're a house, we are the bride
Where God's Spirit lives inside
And nothing ever can stand against her"
"Soul, then know thy full salvation
Rise o'er sin and fear and care
Joy to find in every station,
Something still to do or bear.
Think what Spirit dwells within thee,
Think what Father's smiles are thine,
Think that Jesus died to win thee,
Child of heaven, canst thou repine?"