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May 20, 2024 · God’s sovereignty is a natural consequence of His omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence. What’s subject to disagreement is to what extent God applies His sovereignty—specifically, how much control He exerts over the wills of men.
- Permissive Will
It was God’s will that Jesus suffer and die, but those...
- Omnipotence
Nowhere is God’s omnipotence seen more clearly than in...
- Omniscience
Omniscience is defined as “the state of having total...
- Permissive Will
- I. Introduction
- II. His Deity
- III. His Humanity
- IV. Three Alternatives
- V. Errors Through The Centuries
- VI. Other False Views of Christ
- VII. Some Related Issues
- VIII. The Problem of The Kenosis
- IX. How Can We Model The God-Man?
Jesus Christ Himself, the central figure of Christianity, is really a biblical mystery. Many portions of Scripture completely affirm His deity, showing that at no time did He lose His divine nature. Yet the Bible teaches, equally strongly, that Christ became fully human.
Christ receives divine titles in the Word of God. The familiar prologue to the Gospel of John reads, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God” (John 1:1 NET Bible). John makes it clear that this Word is Jesus Christ: “Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory – the glory ...
The Bible builds an equally clear case in support of Christ’s full humanity subsequent to the Incarnation. Several passages indicate that Christ had a human birth (Matt. 1:18-25; Luke 2:4-21; John 1:14; 1 Tim. 3:15; 1 John 4:1-3). He also had a human development (Luke 2:52). He had all the human elements: a body (John 2:21), a soul (John 12:27), an...
When someone realizes that the Scriptures reveal Christ to be the complete God-man, he has three basic alternatives. ·First, he may decide to reject this revelation because it does not make sense to him. Such a rejection would diminish or completely erase the authority of the Word of God in his mind. ·Second, he can try to reason it out, reword it,...
Church history affords a number of illustrations of how people have tried either to reject or rationalize this God-man mystery. The two erroneous extremes just discussed have appeared in many forms throughout the centuries and will continue to arise as long as people refuse to bow to the authority of God’s revelation of Himself in the Scriptures. T...
Outside of the main lines of church history, many more examples of the two extremes (a denial of Christ’s deity or of His humanity) can be found by looking into the beliefs of cults and Eastern religion concerning the person of Jesus Christ. Several of these religions regard Christ as simply another prophet sent by God to help enlighten the people ...
At his point, it may be helpful to deal specifically with some of the practical problems and questions related to the God-man antinomy. Remember, since these problems are related directly to a true mystery, by definition there can be no really satisfying solutions to them on a human level. They only illustrate the nature and implications of the mys...
The great passage that describes the kenosis (self-emptying) of Jesus Christ is Philippians 2:5-11. The kenosis is related directly to Christ’s nature as God and man, and verses 6-8 portray what was involved: “who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped, but emptied himself by taking on the f...
Christians are supposed to model their lives after Christ. “For to this you were called, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving an example for you to follow in his steps. He committed no sin nor was deceit found in his mouth” (1 Peter 2:21-22; see also 1 Peter 1:14-16). The question is, How can Christ be our example and model when He was also ...
- Elohim (God) God is Elohim—He is your Creator. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) Have you given much thought to the power God used to create the universe?
- Elohim Chayim (The Living God) God is Elohim Chayim—He is the Living God. “Today you will know that the living God is among you.” (Joshua 3:10) “Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said.
- Abba (Father) God is Abba—He is your Father. “So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children.
- Jehovah-Jireh (The Lord Will Provide) God is Jehovah-jireh—the Lord will provide. “When they arrived at the place where God had told him to go, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it.
Oct 5, 2006 · 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. Jesus Is Fully God
- Jesus Has Two Natures — God and ManThe 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...
- Each Nature Remains DistinctThe truths of Christ’s two natures — his full manhood and full Godhood — are pretty well understood and known by Christians. But for a right unders...
- Christ Is only One PersonWhat 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 ea...
Jan 4, 2022 · There is one mediator between God and man means that Christ is the only way to God the Father. Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” ( John 14:6 ).
Jan 20, 2023 · The glory of God is the beauty of His spirit. It is not an aesthetic beauty or a material beauty, but the beauty that emanates from His character, from all that He is. The glory of man—human dignity and honor—fades (1 Peter 1:24).
The verse is written with a poetic structure of three lines. God creates man in his own image. In the image of God man is created. God creates both male and female. One meaning of being created in the image of God is mankind's unique capacity for moral and rational awareness. God made humans to be inherently different from animals.
