The answer
The Second Person is the Creator-“All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made” (John 1:3)-and that Person Himself had to restore our creation to the very same image in which were originally created, and which was distorted, in order that we may be born again from above (John 3:3).
Man was destroyed for lack of knowledge (Hos. 4:6), and so it was necessary-according to the plan of God-for the Hypostasis of Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding-i.e. the Logos-to come in order that man may know God and live in His bliss (Matt. 11:27).
The world perished because of its ignorance, and so it was expedient for Wisdom (the Hypostasis of the Word) to deliver and save it.
The Second Person is also the One Who is set to reveal the Divine Being. According to the Holy Apostle John, “No man hath seen God at any time; the Only Begotten Son, Which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared (i.e. revealed) Him.”27
His Holiness Pope Tawadros II
Notes
27 Translator’s note: John 1:18.
Pope Tawadros II, My Faith: A Series of Dialogues on the Creed (Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, 2014), 79–80.
The pages in the book (79–80)
