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             Jesus Christ is the Preexistent Word of God (John 1:1-18). Therefore, Jesus shares fully in the divine nature as a member of the Trinity (John 1:1). When the beginning of all things began, Jesus already existed. There never was a time when the Word was not. He existed before the creation of the world (John 17:24). (1 John 2:1 and Heb 7:25).
             Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was born into the world through a woman, Mary. Mary was found to be with child by the miraculous work Holy Spirit without a human father (Matthew 1:18; Luke 1:26-38). It was prophesied in Isaiah 7:14. The virgin birth is not a self-contradictory statement. God could and did make it happen. This is how Jesus came to be incarnated into a human body. .
             In the incarnation the functional limitations of being a human were imposed on Jesus" divine nature. The incarnation was more of an addition to the standard human attributes than it was a lessening of the divine attributes. Jesus" humanity was humanity as it was intended to be united with His divine nature. The incarnation shows that salvation must come from the Lord. It can never come through human effort; salvation must be the work of God Himself. The Virgin birth makes the uniting of full humanity and full deity possible in Jesus Christ. It also allows Christ to robe Himself with full humanity without also acquiring man's inherited sin nature. .
             Jesus Christ was both fully God and fully human. Jesus was fully human in that he seemed to share in our very same human weaknesses and limitations. His human body and mind grew and developed (Luke 2:40). Jesus experienced tiredness, hunger and thirst (John 4:6; Matthew 4:2; John 19:28). Jesus had a human soul and human emotions (John 12:27; Matthew 26:38). Even the people nearest to Jesus viewed him as being only a man. Many did not believe Him (Matthew 13:58). Jesus was not partly human, half human, or even temporarily human; Jesus had a full, undiminished humanity.


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