To us a human child was born. To us the Son of God was given. God himself had come in the flesh, Immanuel. God himself had come to live as a man among men. God himself entered the earth realm in the form of man in order to do what no man could do, to redeem humanity from the power of sin and death and subservience to a deceiver and to reclaim the dominion that humanity had forfeited through their rebellion.