Question 1 — The Fitness of the Incarnation

Concerning the first, three things occur to be considered: first, the fitness of the Incarnation; second, the mode of union of the Word Incarnate; third, what follows this union.

Under the first head there are six points of inquiry:

(1) Whether it was fitting for God to become incarnate?

• (2) Whether it was necessary for the restoration of the human race?
• (3) Whether if there had been no sin God would have become incarnate?
• (4) Whether He became incarnate to take away original sin rather than actual?
• (5) Whether it was fitting for God to become incarnate from the beginning of the world?
• (6) Whether His Incarnation ought to have been deferred to the end of the world?