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Jul 24, 2023 · Ultimately, the paradox of Jesus being fully God and fully man calls us to a deeper faith in the wisdom of God. It reminds us that God’s ways are higher than our ways, and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts (Isaiah 55:9). Thus, we are invited to embrace the mystery and wonder of who Jesus is rather than attempting to reduce Him to a ...
- What Are Enhypostasis and Anhypostasis
The words enhypostasis and anhypostasis are used to describe...
- Hypostatic Union
The hypostatic union is the term used to describe how God...
- Fully God
The result was the Incarnation. God the Son became a man...
- What Are Enhypostasis and Anhypostasis
- Jesus Has Two Natures — God and Man
- Each Nature Is Full and Complete
- Each Nature Remains Distinct
- Christ Is only One Person
- Conclusion
- Notes
The first truth we need to understand is that Jesus is one Person who has two natures: a divine nature and a human nature. In other words, Jesus is both God and man. We will look at each nature accordingly.
Having seen the biblical basis that Jesus is both God and man, the second truth that we must recognize is that each of Christ’s natures is full and complete. In other words, Jesus is fully God and fully man. Another helpful way to say it is that Jesus is 100% God and 100% man.
The truths of Christ’s two natures — his full manhood and full Godhood — are pretty well understood and known by Christians. But for a right understanding of the incarnation we must go even further. We must understand that the two natures of Christ remain distinct and retain their own properties. What does this truth mean? Two things: (1) They do n...
What we have seen so far about the deity and humanity of Christ shows us that Christ has two natures— a divine nature and a human nature — that each nature is full and complete, that they remain distinct and do not mix together to form a third kind of nature, and that Christ will be both God and man forever. But if Christ has two natures, does this...
We have seen the biblical evidence for the fact that Christ is God the Son, that he has both a divine and human nature, that each nature is full and complete, that each nature remains distinct, that Christ is nonetheless one Person, and that things which are true of one nature are true of the Person. The relevance of these truths to us should go wi...
1 J.I. Packer, Knowing God (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1993 edition), p. 53. 2 Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine (InterVarsity and Zondervan Publishing, 1994), p. 556. 3 Packer, p. 57. 4 Grudem, p. 554. 5 Grudem, p. 556. 6 Chalcedonean Creed, quoted in Grudem, p. 557. 7Grudem, p. 560.
Jul 24, 2023 · The hypostatic union is the term used to describe how God the Son, Jesus Christ, took on a human nature, yet remained fully God at the same time. Jesus always had been God (John 8:58, 10:30), but at the incarnation Jesus became a human being (John 1:14). The addition of the human nature to the divine nature is Jesus, the God-man.
Jul 24, 2023 · The result was the Incarnation. God the Son became a man (John 1:1, 14). Hebrews 2:17 gives the reason that Jesus had to be both God and man: “He had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people.”.
Aug 11, 2023 · Before He was born to Mary, Jesus existed as part of the Triune God, before the Creation of the world. God’s nature is to be three yet one, one in three. There is the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. During His earthly ministry, God the Son chose to live as fully man and have every human experience. At the same time, He remained fully God ...
Dec 6, 2018 · In short, the answer is, Jesus had to be truly God so that he could satisfy God’s wrath and secure for us true righteousness and life. More could be said here but certainly not less. If you like shorthand categories: The Redeemer had to be truly human: in order to suffer and sympathize. The Redeemer had to be truly divine: in order to satisfy ...
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Sep 3, 2020 · Jesus is God period.Just as compelling as the deity of Jesus is the humanity of the Lord. The apostle John says it beautifully in John 1:14, “And the Word became 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.”. You see, Jesus was a baby (Luke 2:7), He got tired ...
