considering Christianity, I struggled with the questions, What if God wanted to manifest Himself in human nature? Who are we to say, “No, God, You are not allowed to nor can You be a man.” Accepting the possibility that God can do whatever He wants, including manifesting Himself in human nature, was a major paradigm shift for me. But there was a second aspect to this issue. Why would God want to become a man? It seemed to me that Protestants and Catholics tended to present the reason for the Incarnation