# What does it mean to say that Jesus is “fully God and fully man”? Give at least two theological reasons why we should believe this doctrine.
# RT Kendall
Scripture attests to it
without this belief, we have no Christian faith
salvation
# How human was Jesus?
It is equally proof of his humanity; he was the son of Mary.
# Christopher Watkin
# JI Packer
The Incarnation, this mysterious miracle at the heart of historic Christianity, is central in the New Testament witness.
# Erickson
The incarnation was more an additon of human attributes than a loss of divine attributes
The union of the two natures meant that they did not function independently.
In thinking about the incarnation, we must begin not with the traditional conceptions of humanity and deity, but with the recognition that the two are most fully known in Jessu Christ.
It is important to think of the initiative of the incarnation as coming from above, asit were, rather than from below.
It is also helpful to think of Jesus as a very complex person
Ebionism
Arianism
Docetism
Apollinarianism
Jesus’s diety
Jesus’s humanity
Nestorianism
Eutychianism
Bibliography
ST 5212 final paper
# What does it mean to say that Jesus is “fully God and fully man”? Give at least two theological reasons why we should believe this doctrine.
# RT Kendall
Scripture attests to it
without this belief, we have no Christian faith
salvation
# How human was Jesus?
It is equally proof of his humanity; he was the son of Mary.
# Christopher Watkin
# JI Packer
The Incarnation, this mysterious miracle at the heart of historic Christianity, is central in the New Testament witness.
# Erickson
The incarnation was more an additon of human attributes than a loss of divine attributes
The union of the two natures meant that they did not function independently.
In thinking about the incarnation, we must begin not with the traditional conceptions of humanity and deity, but with the recognition that the two are most fully known in Jessu Christ.
It is important to think of the initiative of the incarnation as coming from above, asit were, rather than from below.
It is also helpful to think of Jesus as a very complex person