4. Jesus - fully God.

4. Jesus - fully God.

This is what we celebrate at Christmas. One of the church father’s, Anselm, wrote that God’s salvation plan for humans involved triumphant victory over sin, death and the grave. However no person could be found that was eligible or capable to do this. Because of this, God stepped into the human history, so that this victory could be achieved. This God-man would be fully human, so as to live every feature of humanity, including suffering and death. This God-man would also need to remain fully God, so as to defeat sin, death and the grave. Jesus, being sinless, was this God-man, consisting as he did of two complete natures, the God nature and the human nature.

How Is it possible? If you take a pint of milk, and you pour the milk into a milk jug, the milk remains milk, just that it is now in another container. In the same way, God inhabited a human body, thereby still being God, but also human.

Throughout the Bible, Jesus is acknowledge as God. The apostle John expressly calls Jesus, the Word or God. Later on in his life, John expressly stated that Jesus was “the true God and eternal life”. Jesus himself claimed equality with God and when He stated “your sins are forgiven”, some of the Jewish rulers attributed this as a God alone thing and thereby accused Him, at least in their minds, of blasphemy. During the questioning during his trial on this charge of blasphemy, Jesus equated himself with being God.

That Jesus is both human and divine, is what makes Christianity unique amongst the world’s religions. It is why Jesus claimed to be the only way to God, and it is why millions of people today worship Him and acknowledge Him as their Lord and their God.