THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HIS BIRTH (John 1:1-4) ¶ IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD AND THE WORD WAS GOD 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men .. Verse 14 AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. Jesus Christ did not start living the day He was born. He has been living before the foundation of the earth. Eph 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: In the time of the prophets, Christ was in them talking about Himself.So the birth of Jesus Christ was a very important point in life where divinity manifested in the flesh. God could not have made any contact with the world without the flesh because He is a spir