Jesus’ divinity and his humanity have been at
the heart of controversies for 2,000 years. At times Christians have
fallen into the heresy of denying Jesus’ divinity; at other times they
have rejected his humanity. To affirm one without the other is to deny
the biblical witness and the faith we confess in the Nicene Creed:
We
believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally
begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from
true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father; through him
all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from
heaven, was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the virgin Mary and became
truly human.
Jesus was not part human and part divine. We confess Christ to be
fully human and fully divine. John begins his Gospel with such a
declaration: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. ... And the Word became flesh and lived among us
....”
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