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- Christ is a single person with two natures: the divine nature that he shares equally and eternally with the Father and the Holy Spirit, and the human nature that he assumed in his incarnation. These two natures are united in his person without confusion or change but also without division or separation.
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Dec 9, 2013 · The Monophysites claimed that Jesus did not have two natures, a divine nature and a human nature, but only one nature. That one nature was neither completely divine nor completely human. It was, depending on how one looked at it, a deified human nature or a humanized divine nature.
- The Human Nature Of Christ
Many passages of Scripture teach the true humanity of Jesus....
- The Person of Christ
The Holy Spirit caused the eternal Son to be united to a...
- The Human Nature Of Christ
- John 1:14
- Hebrews 2:17–18
- John 4:6
- Matthew 24:36
- John 11:33–36
- Matthew 4:1–11
- Philippians 2:5–11
- 1 John 4:2–3
- 2 Corinthians 5:21
- John 19:28–30
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The Word continues the opening words of the prologue in John 1:1. Became flesh does not mean the Word ceased being God; rather, the Word, who was God, also took on humanity (cf. Phil. 2:6–7). This is the most amazing event in all of history: the eternal, omnipotent, omnipresent, infinitely holy Son of God took on a human nature and lived among humanity as one who was both God and man at the same time, in one person. Dwelt among us means more literally “pitched his tent” (Gk. skēnoō), an allus...
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had to be. Unless Jesus became fully human in every respect (except for sin), he could not represent believers as their high priest. like his brothers. Cf. vv. 11–12, emphasizing Jesus’ human nature. high priest. See also Heb. 3:1–2; Heb. 4:14–5:10; Heb. 6:19–20; Heb. 7:11–10:18; Heb. 13:8–13. Jesus must be human in order to serve as high priest on behalf of humanity. Propitiation (Gk. hilaskomai) conveys the sense of an atoning sacrifice that puts away sin and satisfies God’s wrath (cf. Deut...
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Jacob’s well. The probable location for this well lies in modern Nablus—known in the Roman period as Flavia Neapolis and called in the OT by the name Shechem. This well was once covered with vaulted stone and a Byzantine (4th–7th century A.D.) church. It is quite deep (as described in John 4;11), although measurements have varied over the years (possibly due to debris in the well). It was also at a juncture of major ancient roads and near the traditional sacred site of Joseph’s tomb. The refe...
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In response to the disciples asking, “when will these things be?” (v. 3), Jesus says no one knows, not even … the Son, but the Father only. In his incarnate life, Jesus learned things as other human beings learn them (cf. Luke 2:52; Heb. 5:8). On the other hand, Jesus was also fully God, and, as God, he had infinite knowledge (cf. John 2:25; John 16:30; John 21:17). Here he is apparently speaking in terms of his human nature. This is similar to other statements about Jesus which could be true...
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The Greek word underlying deeply moved, embrimaomai (elsewhere in the NT only in v. 38; Matt. 9:30 [“sternly warned”]; Mark 1:43 [“sternly charged”]; and Mark 14:5 [“scolded”]), means to feel something deeply and strongly. Jesus was moved with profound sorrow at the death of his friend and at the grief that his other friends had suffered. In addition, this sorrow was intermixed with anger at the evil of death (the final enemy; see 1 Cor. 15:26; Rev. 21:4), and also with a deep sense of awe at...
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The temptations are a diabolical attempt to subvert God’s plan for human redemption by causing Jesus to fall into sin and disobedience, thus disqualifying him as the sinless Savior. Jesus was led up by the Spirit. The Holy Spirit guided Jesus in his earthly life, providing a pattern for Jesus’ followers to be empowered and led by the Holy Spirit (cf. notes on Gal. 5:16; Gal. 5:17; Gal. 5:18). fasting forty days and forty nights. Jesus’ experience of 40 days of fasting in the wilderness corres...
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Emptied himself has occasioned much controversy. Greek kenoō can mean “empty, pour out” or also (metaphorically) “give up status and privilege.” Does this mean that Christ temporarily relinquished his divine attributes during his earthly ministry? This theory of Christ’s kenosis or “self-emptying” is not in accord with the context of Philippians or with early Christian theology. Paul is not saying that Christ became less than God or “gave up” some divine attributes; he is not even commenting...
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By this you know: John establishes a doctrinal standard, specifically a Christological one, for testing spirits (see v. 1). If a spirit (or a person moved to speak by such a spirit) does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, that spirit or person is misleading God’s people. Apparently many false teachers were saying that Jesus only “appeared” to be human. This was probably based on a false idea that the material creation was inherently evil and therefore physical bodies were ev...
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This verse is one of the most important in all of Scripture for understanding the meaning of the atonement and justification. Here we see that the one who knew no sin is Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 2:20) and that he (God) made him (Christ) to be sin (Gk. hamartia, “sin”). This means that God the Father made Christ to be regarded and treated as “sin” even though Christ himself never sinned (Heb. 4:15; cf. Gal. 3:13). Further, we see that God did this for our sake—that is, God regarded and treated “ou...
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The reference to Scripture being fulfilled builds on John 19:24, most likely in allusion to Ps. 69:21: “for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink” (cf. Matt. 27:34, 48; see also Ps. 22:15). The sour wine (Mark 15:36) Jesus is offered here was used by soldiers to quench their thirst and is different from the “wine mixed with myrrh,” a sedative that Jesus was offered (and refused) on the way to the cross (Mark 15:23). Hyssop was a plant classified in 1 Kings 4:33 as a simple shrub that coul...
Dec 15, 2016 · The New Testament is clear enough that Jesus has a human body. John 1:14 means at least this, and more: “The Word became flesh.”. His humanity became one of the first tests of orthodoxy (1 John 4:2; 2 John 7). He was born (Luke 2:7). He grew (Luke 2:40, 52).
Sep 14, 2019 · The church had reached this consensus at Chalcedon, 451, that Jesus was one person uniting in himself two full and complete natures – a complete divine nature and a complete human nature. So that he was fully human and fully divine; wasn’t half human, half divine.
May 2, 2017 · Many passages of Scripture teach the true humanity of Jesus. For example, today’s passage describes the hunger of Jesus (Matt. 21:18). The ability to get hungry is an attribute of Christ’s human nature, for God has no need of anything, even food.
The Holy Spirit caused the eternal Son to be united to a human nature in the womb of the virgin. By having a human mother, Jesus was able to receive a true humanity. By not having a biological human father, Jesus was kept free from inheriting a sin nature.
His human nature is the same as ours, for he had a human body and a human soul. He was like us in all things except that He was without sin, even though He was tempted as we are (Hebrews 4:15). However, this does not mean that He had within Him disorderly passions.
