| Is Jesus our God? Is Jesus our God? Is Jesus a man? The answer is yes to both questions, but He does not have two natures living in one body. He is not half God and half man. Scripture assumes we understand that He is completely man and completely God. Scripture never assumes He is half, quarter or a piece of God and/or man but that Jesus is totally and completely both. Jesus was totally and inseparably both God and man as illustrated in the figure. It is important to know that Jesus was not 50% God and 50% man. He was not like some actor who changes His clothes or was more God one time and more man another time. Scripture clearly teaches that Jesus was both man and God. So 1 Timothy 2:5 is right - Jesus is a man. Titus 2:13 is also correct - Jesus is God. Jesus was God and man at the same time always. Sometimes scripture refers to Jesus as a man and sometimes as God. |
| Nicene Creed A.D. 381 |
| “We, then . . . teach men to confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ,
the same perfect in Godhead and also perfect in manhood; truly God and truly man . . . consubstantial
with the Father according to the Godhead, and consubstantial with us according to the Manhood;
in all things like unto us, without sin . . . before all ages of the Father . . . and in
these latter days, for us and for our salvation, born . . . according to the Manhood; one
and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten to be acknowledged in two natures, inconfusedly,
unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably; the distinction of the natures being by no means
taken away by the union, but rather being preserved, and concurring in one Person and one
Subsistence, not parted or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son, and only begotten,
God the Word, the Lord Jesus Christ.” |
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