How can Jesus be God and Man?
You would have heard of this statement in Church that “Jesus was 100% man and 100% God while on earth.”
But what does this mean?
In simple terms, it means that Jesus existed as God before He existed as a man. Many get this wrong by thinking that Jesus was first a man and then became God.
The fact that Jesus was first God also ties into the Christian belief that God is Trinity which is that God is one in Being revealed in three distinct Persons the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Jesus being part of the Trinity, has always existed as the second person of the Godhead.
So what happened?
In God’s appointed time, Jesus, who eternally existed as God, took on the role of a human in the incarnation and became flesh. Simply put, Jesus added the nature of humanity to His divinity. He did not cease to be God in the embodiment, but He did become a man.
So when Jesus became a man, He did not become another ‘person’ but instead took on / added to Himself the human nature, which is how Jesus could be both God and Man.
Jesus took on this role not for a mere display of His divinity but rather in humility to display His love for us on the cross and become the ultimate sacrifice for our sins.
Jesus took on this role not for a mere display of His divinity but rather in Humility displayed for us all the love of God on the Cross.
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