restoration into the service of God.”8 As Barth put it, “The incarnation, the taking of the forma servi, means not only God’s becoming a creature, becoming a man … but it means His giving Himself up to the contradiction of man against Him, His placing Himself under the judgment under which man has fallen in this contradiction, under the curse of death which rests upon Him.”9 Then there are those who argue that Christ’s primary motivation to incarnate himself was to reconcile and unite sinful