First, let me make clear what I believe about our true Lord Jesus Christ.
His divinity - Before He became a Man, He was the divine Word, the only begotten Son from the bosom of the Father. I fully acknowledge and believe in His divinity as the I AM of the Old Testament. His very essence was Spirit in the Old Testament and He is divine BECAUSE He was Spirit then. I also fully believe that at the moment He was resurrected to life, He again was divine in His essence and now is our God and Savior as spoken in the New Testament by His apostles.
His Manhood - For 30+ years up till the point He died, He gave up His divine essence and took on the form of flesh and blood. He never had both spirit (divine) and flesh in His essence as a Man because it is both against Scriptures and reality! He was the first Man to have the Spirit of God dwelling fully in flesh, which Paul writes about in Colossians 2. But the Spirit of God here is the Spirit or Deity talked about by Paul is from the divine Father who descended upon Him like a dove when He came out of the water!
In fact, the reality that Jesus’ apostles called Him a Man when they preached meant that when He was a Man, He was only flesh and blood in His essence!
So many Gospel verses testify to this:
Acts 2:22 Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a MAN attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know—
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the MAN Christ Jesus
Romans 5:17 For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive an abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one MAN, Jesus Christ!
1 Corinthians 15:20-22 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by MAN came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
His divinity - Before He became a Man, He was the divine Word, the only begotten Son from the bosom of the Father. I fully acknowledge and believe in His divinity as the I AM of the Old Testament. His very essence was Spirit in the Old Testament and He is divine BECAUSE He was Spirit then. I also fully believe that at the moment He was resurrected to life, He again was divine in His essence and now is our God and Savior as spoken in the New Testament by His apostles.
His Manhood - For 30+ years up till the point He died, He gave up His divine essence and took on the form of flesh and blood. He never had both spirit (divine) and flesh in His essence as a Man because it is both against Scriptures and reality! He was the first Man to have the Spirit of God dwelling fully in flesh, which Paul writes about in Colossians 2. But the Spirit of God here is the Spirit or Deity talked about by Paul is from the divine Father who descended upon Him like a dove when He came out of the water!
In fact, the reality that Jesus’ apostles called Him a Man when they preached meant that when He was a Man, He was only flesh and blood in His essence!
So many Gospel verses testify to this:
Acts 2:22 Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a MAN attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know—
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the MAN Christ Jesus
Romans 5:17 For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive an abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one MAN, Jesus Christ!
1 Corinthians 15:20-22 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by MAN came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.