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What in Carnation?*

Christianity is differentiated from its sibling faiths of Judaism and Islam by several key theological premises. The one that has caused the most difficulty for Christians through time is the notion that God became human and dwelt among us, not because the Incarnation of Jesus Christ is itself problematic but because we have had to maneuver around what it means that God became fully human for 2000 years. We don’t like to think about the carnality of human living when it comes to Jesus: what does it mean that God actually had a body with all its needs, wants, and oddities? The book Everyone Poops , so beneficial to parents doing potty training for at least a generation, does not lie. Jesus pooped. He no doubt got a stomach virus a few times in his life. He likely needed to blow his nose more than once in his life. And he undoubtedly had sexual urges.   That’s what it means to be a human being. But those who have dealt with the notion of Jesus as a sexual being holisti