5-Minute Apologetics for Today by Ron Rhodes

Author:Ron Rhodes
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780736937580
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers, Inc.

Pearl of Wisdom: The incarnation is a wonderfully profound mystery. It is worthy of deep contemplation and should inspire us to praise!

Day 182

Jesus’ Two Natures

Before the incarnation, Jesus was one person with one nature (a divine nature). After the incarnation, Jesus was still one person, but now He had two natures—a divine nature and a human nature (Philippians 2:5-11).

The word nature, when used of Christ’s divinity, refers to all that belongs to deity, including all the attributes of deity. When used of Christ’s humanity, nature refers to all that belongs to humanity, including all the attributes of humanity. Christ in the incarnation was fully God and fully man.

One person. Though Jesus in the incarnation had both a human and a divine nature, He was only one person. He referred to Himself with singular pronouns (I, me, and mine).

Two natures. The relationship of Christ’s two natures is complex. The attributes of one nature are never attributed to the other, but the attributes of both natures are properly attributed to His one person. Thus Christ at the same moment in time had what seem to be contradictory qualities. He was finite and yet infinite, weak and yet omnipotent, increasing in knowledge and yet omniscient.

Forever human and divine. When Christ became a man in the incarnation, He did not enter into a temporary union of the human and divine natures in one person that ended at His death and resurrection. Rather, the Scriptures make clear that Christ’s human nature continues forever (Acts 1:11; Matthew 26:64).

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