 in which case they would need an incarnation, though you have a Franciscan tradition and philosophy that perhaps even if we hadn't fallen, God would have still become one of us as a matter of solidarity to be in friendship with us. But also, St. Thomas talks about when he asked the question, was the way that God redeemed us through the incarnation, life, passion, and death, resurrection of Christ, was it the only way he could have done it? And his answer is no, he's God. He could have found other ways to do it.