The Biblical Basis for Jesus’ humanity can be seen in several places in Scripture. We see in John 1:14 “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” This verse stated that God came down in human form. It is also recorded that Jesus was weary, and had to sit down to drink from a well (John4: 6). This shows that Jesus was just like you and me and had human nature. We can also see the humanity of Jesus through his human birth, growing and death. Jesus was made in a virgin’s womb and was born into the world as a baby (Isaiah 7:14). From Childhood Jesus had to grow mentally and spiritually (Luke 2:52). Jesus experienced hunger, anxiety, and disappointment (Mark 14:33). Jesus experienced the life as a human just like you and I to become our example of how to live.
The Biblical basis for His deity in seen in the bible as well. The Deity of Jesus is considered critical guideline and is an important belief within Christianity. This guideline arrests that Jesus Christ was and is God incarnate. In Colossians Paul states, “the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” (Col. 2:9) The Christian meaning of the statement “deity of Christ” is honestly clear. As Christians this means that God and Christ are one like stated in John 10:30. The hypostatic union us used to describes how God the Son, Jesus, took on a human nature, yet remained fully God at the same time. These two natures, human and divine, are united. Jesus sometime operated with the restriction of being human. An example of Jesus being a human is in John 19:28 when Jesus was thirsty. At other times operated in the power of His deity. An example if this would be when he feed the five thousand. In both of these situations Jesus’ actions were from His one person. Jesus will forever be fully God and fully human.
The incarnation of Jesus was required to pay for our sins. Incarnation literally means taking on flesh. In Hebrews, It states that without the shedding of blood there is no remission (Hebrews 9:22). A blood sacrifice requires a body of flesh and blood. God sent his only begotten Son into the world to be this blood sacrifice.
Jesus is not a mere man. He is so much more than a man; we can see
Jesus was different than other human being because he was the Son of God and p the second person in the Trinity. The Trinity consist of the Father (God), The Son (Jesus) and the Holly Sprit. The bible has many verses on the Trinity and is largely in the in the New Testament there are places in the Old Testament a few of texts are Genesis 1:26-27,Isaiah 43:10-11 and Psalm 2 (The Trinity in the Bible Thomas K. Johnson).
...is composed of two natures, one external, one internal, one divine the other human, one invisible and one visible. “For notwithstanding this supreme and divine state, he experienced swaddling clothes, the crèche, childhood and the powerlessness of childhood, flight and persecution” (pg 144). God experienced the lowliness of human nature. Even though Jesus experienced all these states he was truly God-man. However, the glory of the Father wasn’t established in him yet. It was deferred by the plan of God for his son. This division only existed in Jesus. It was for the sole purpose of representing and erasing the separation that occurred between God and his creatures through sin. Jesus was separated from glory due to love. So its our duty to love Jesus in his love. It was due to love he gave his divinity to humanity. The mystery is love and only can be love.
, He had no qualms about telling His opponents that He was the son of God (John 10:36 TLB [The Living Bible]), the way, the truth and the life (John 14:6), and that anyone who had seen Him, had seen the father (John 14:9). Due to the nature of these statements, it is understandable that some assumed that He was a raving lunatic and a liar; however, none of these assumptions could be supported by His day-to-day activities. Additionally, in spite of all threats of intimidation, and even though He was given every chance, He never denied His claim to be God. Therefore, Christians believe that Jesus was God in human form. Next, His life matters because of how He lived. His manner of living provided for us, a model by which we can compare our own
Without having His deity (which would cause Him not to be God), Christ would just have been a man. Through scripture it is specifically shown that God has a one-ness, that though it is not directly stated, it is implied that there is a Trinity, and it is also specifically stated that Christ was fully human (his humanity) and fully God (his deity) at the same time. Bibliography Dorner, J.A.. History of the Development of the Doctrine Person of Christ. Volume I. 1970 Dorner, J. A. & Co.,
He is God incarnate who became flesh to take away the sins of the world. He was a poor servant, an obedient child who grew up with wisdom and understanding and became man so that the Word became flesh to dwell among humanity (Weaver, 2014). For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6). Jesus’ ministry was to preach and teach about the Kingdom Of Heaven and these teachings are the revelations that mankind are to live by in order to get into Heaven and find salvation (DiVincenzo, 2015). The teaching about the Kingdom was for God to restore his creation into the right relationship with himself (DiVincenzo, 2015). This was established so that he and his people can be together in peace, justice, and truth (DiVincenzo, 2015). This identity of Jesus and the work that he did on earth is important to the Christian worldview because it shows that God fulfilled his promise of the Messiah to save the world and it also fulfilled the scripture of the one that was to come. This is an essential element to the beliefs as a
"And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth."(New Revised Standard Version, John 1:14) As the only son of God in the Christian theology, Jesus Christ was tasked with a multitude of trials, and horrors the common man would have rebuked and refused to undertake. However, as a demi-god born of the divine Christian deity and the mortal, virgin Mary, Jesus was not the average mortal man.
The life of Jesus is told in the four gospels of the Bible, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. They speak of His virgin birth, His ministry and miracles, His death, and His resurrection. Jesus was born into humanity through Mary but was conceived without a human father (Matthew 1:18) making Him fully man and fully God. He was called the Son of God, (1 John 5:20), the second person of the Holy Trinity. Jesus taught about the kingdom of God and how we are to love everyone, even our enemies (Merrick, 2015). Jesus was the only human to live a sinless life so He was able to fulfill His purpose on earth to provide a way for man’s relationship with God to be restored. “In Jesus’ life, one beholds not merely the lengths to which God will go to save humanity, but the nature of the wisdom, love, and the power of God who saves.” (Merrick, 2015) God provided a plan so man could be redeemed and
(Rom. 3:25) So that we can be saved and not condemned. Thus Jesus paid the ransom for
No one on the face of the earth was more intimate with the Creator God than His Son Jesus. He was one with God. John 17:10 quotes Jesus as praying, “You are in me and I am in You.” Not only was Jesus God, but also He yearned to continually communicate with God. He modeled what it meat to be a man of prayer. Jesus frequently left the crowds to be alone with God to pray (Matthew 14:23, Mark 6:46, Luke 6:12, 9:28). Jesus also knew the Words of His Father. He often quoted the Old Testament scriptures from memory (see Matthew 4). He had spent time with the scrolls and learned what it meant to “hide [God’s] word in [his] heart.” (Psalm 119:11)
This would mean Christ’s sacrifice could not entirely cover the sinful nature of man. There could not be a genuine salvific event without a physical sacrifice on the cross. These two views understand the divinity and the humanity of Christ as either one or the other but not both. However, Kärkkäinen connects the Johannine concept of Logos to explain how Jesus is both human and divine (65). “Logos Christology is a dominant way of interpreting Christ’s incarnation while showing us how Christology has taken various forms throughout history” (67).
Before this semester I had never taken a moment to ask myself - Who is Jesus? It is something that I have never been given the option to question. Being brought up in a strong Christian background, where I went to mass every Sunday, and then following mass, went to bible school for two hours, ingrained a specific image of Jesus into my head. This image portrayed Jesus as a white man who preformed miracles for the poor and oppressed, and also sacrificed himself on the cross for all of humanity’s’ sins. However, after taking this course, I have been able to rethink Jesus in ways that I could have never imagined. It has become evident to me that there are many different ways to see Jesus. And with each of these contrasting views, there comes both biblical and rational evidence supporting each image along with criticism disputing each image.
Jesus had a human mother, Mary (see Luke 1:30-31 for example), but his father was God (see John 3:18 for example). Jesus was human, not God. Consider 1 Timothy 2:5:"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" There could not be a clearer statement that Christ was a man.
In the book One the Incarnation by Saint Athanasius it talks about why Jesus became human for our salvation. Jesus had no reason not to enter into the world as a human, because “it was right that they should be thus attributed to his as man, in order to show that his body was a real one and not merely an appearance” (Athanasius 15). Showing that it was important for Jesus to be a human and spread his knowledge among us; to help us learn and be able to teach other through oral and written tradition. It was now necessary for Jesus to come for our salvation because “had he surrendered his body to death and then raised it at once…which showed him to be not only a man, but also a God the word” (Athanasius 14). This connects back to by why Jesus wants humans to believe that he died a human death.
The human race needed salvation because of one sin that affected the rest of humanity. God reached out through Jesus to guide us, “He has been manifested in a human body for this reason only, out of the love and goodness of His Father, for the salvation of us men” (Athanasius 2). It was through Jesus that salvation was brought to us because, “God has not only made them of nothing, but had also graciously bestowed on them His own life by the grace of the Word” (Athanasius 5). Another name for Jesus is the Word, “And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw His glory, The glory as of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth” (Schroeder 20). Through this we understand that the Word has been with God since the dawn of time and it was through Him in which creation came to be (Pohle February Seventh).