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do you do The Bible teaches that Jesus is fully human and fully divine. So how's that possible? It's a mystery that many, even in the early

church, have wrestled with. Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Beg walks us

through the theological findings of the early church councils.

So we're looking at Luke chapter 22, focusing on verse 39, and John chapter 1, verse 14.

This was no ordinary man and no ordinary death.

In Jesus, God became man. That's really the essence of what we're considering this morning.

The infinite became finite. The eternal entered time. The Creator became the created one.

In the prologue of John's Gospel, he puts it in a phrase.

John 114, the word became flesh. And in doing so, he became what he was not,

without ever ceasing to be what he was, namely God.

And in becoming man, Jesus was not exchanging his divinity for his humanity. In becoming man he was not

suspending or surrendering his divine attributes or his divine prerogatives in order that somehow or another he might become real and active.

The only way that it is possible for us to make sense of the text,

as we find it, for example in the prologue of John,

the only satisfaction that we can get to the material

is to recognize that in the incarnation, what we have in Christ is addition or conjunction

but it is not subtraction and the first thing that we need to notice and notice carefully is simply this, that in becoming

incarnate the divine word did not relinquish his deity but added to it. In becoming flesh, he was not a phantom, he was not somebody who seemed

to be human, but he was fully human. Milne says humanness is not simply attached to Christ like a mask or a

garment or an artificial limb, it is something which he is and through which he effectively

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