The Many. Many people and even some religions agree that Jesus was a good man, maybe even a

prophet, but they stop short of accepting that he was God incarnate.

Today on Truth for Life Weekend, Alistairbegg explains why Christianity is actually

meaningless without the incarnation of Christ.

There was a time when Jesus was God but not man. But there never was a time when he was man but not God.

That is historical, biblical, orthodoxy.

And that is what was taught to me as a small boy and for which I'm very grateful.

Colossians 2-9. boy and for which I'm very grateful.

Colaians 2 9 for in Christ all the fullness of the deity, says Paul lives in bodily form. Now the theologians speak of this in very clear terms when they address this issue

and this is volumes I'm going to reduce for you. They say in speaking of the incarnation that what we have is not subtraction.

So actually, subtraction, division, and addition are three key words used in theological terms. What do we have in saying

that the God became man? Was it subtraction? Answered no. Because in becoming man he remained God.

Every so often in a discussion you will say, oh yes we, someone will say,

oh yes we believe that there was a divine son who was co-eternal with the

father.

That was the Christ, they might call him, or that was the son, but when the Christ came the Jesus of Nazareth Christ

he was not the same one as was eternal with the father and they play all these

kind of games and so we need to be able to say no in the

incarnation we do not have subtraction in becoming man Jesus remained God

nor do we have division, so that he was split up and mixed up. He did not become a combo of God and man. And some people's understanding of the incarnation is, if I might say so

reverently, is that Jesus somehow became all combined and mixed up as part God and part man in this one person.

And some of you are sitting there saying, yeah, and I thought that was orthodoxy.

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