Jesus is the eternal God the Son in human flesh
Jesus was a complex person~He was the eternal God
without qualifications,
period. But, he also was what Historians record of Michael Servetus' his last words as: "
Jesus, Son of the Eternal God, have mercy on me." Whatever else he may have believed, we do not know, since all of his works were burned with him!
This is not a manner of semantics, but, holding fast to what
the scriptures actually teach, and not what preachers teach from the pulpits and throughout history, regardless of Anathema's pronounced upon them because they refused to bow down to false doctrines.
The
eternal Sonship doctrine if followed, and preached, truly will give support to cults like the JW's, making Jesus
a begotten god. Divinity
cannot be begotten, nor have a beginning! Jesus Christ is eternal, as the eternal God ~ he is eternal
with no beginning; as the Son of God, he had
a beginning, and
that beginning is recorded for us in the word of God. Luke one. It is just that simple, if we speak when the scriptures speak and silent when they do not speak.
The Word that was in the beginning was God,
period~that Word was made flesh, by the conception of Jesus Christ when God joined himself to the tabernacle of his Son whom
he had conceived in the womb of a virgin named Mary by his power. Mary did not give birth to God, but to God's Son, thus Emmanuel was made flesh in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, by God joining Himself to the tabernacle of His Son, who was the express image of God.
Note very carefully that it was the Word, and not the Son, that is named here. The Word and the Son are not the same Being/Person
without clarification. The Word became the Son by His incarnation in human flesh through Mary. The Son is dependent on both the Word and His human nature for existence. The Son was not made flesh, because the Son is flesh by His very existence.
Was made flesh.
This is part of the great mystery of godliness – God was manifest in the flesh. The Word of God joining human flesh is not a mystery to us
by revelation.
This is an incredible event in all recorded history –
Jehovah God became man.
Jesus Christ is also known as Emmanuel – God with us (
Is 7:14;
Matt 1:23). Jesus had a human body indwelt by the fullness of the Godhead (
Col 2:8-9).
God is a spirit. Jesus had a body. Jesus Christ is God, but God is not Jesus.
The incarnation of the Word of God with a human body is a precious doctrine. Incarnate. adj. Clothed or invested with flesh; embodied in flesh; in a human bodily form. From the Latin incarnat-us and incarnare.
Theologians use a term hypostatic union to describe our Lord’s two natures. God is a Spirit (
Jn 4:24), but a human body was prepared for Him (
Heb 10:5). Christ’s deity (
Jn 8:58) nor humanity (
Heb 4:15)
was changed by the union. He is
not fully Jesus Christ, Son of God, without His body (
Lu 2:12;
24:39).
The Word of God did not have a human body in eternity like some teach.
Before the Word was flesh in Jesus, God did not have a Son
but by covenant.
The Son was not made flesh;
the Son did not exist until the Word was flesh.
God works by covenant, choosing His elect in Jesus before the world began. 2nd Timothy 1:9
God did not speak to Israel by His Son
until Jesus was born (
Heb 1:1-2).
The flesh body prepared for Jesus by God was chosen from David’s family tree.
Jesus had to have a literal and real flesh-bone-blood body to die for us sinners.
Jesus Christ’s flesh body descended from the Jewish fathers (
Romans 9:5).
He was made of a woman in her womb in order to have His body (
Gal 4:4). He took on our nature for the suffering of death in our place (
Heb 2:14-18). A body was prepared for Him, and He willingly offered it (
Heb 10:5-10,
20). His body was formed in the womb of a woman like every other man is formed. Mary conceived and bore a human child like others (
Mat 1:18-20;
Lu 2:23).
Without a mother, God has no Son … for God made Jesus by her (
Gal 4:4). This way He was made in the likeness of men after being God (
Phil 2:5-11).
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