Unitarian Christian Alliance | Jesus as "truly God"? No, he gets us because he is one of us @UnitarianChristianAlliance | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
In the year 451, a church council met at Chalcedon, and the product was a creed that included the commitment that Jesus was "truly God and truly man". This "two natures" doctrine, does not teach the same Jesus as the New Testament, and should be dismissed by Protestant Christians, the same way they reject Papacy, prayer to the saints, the veneration of Mary, and many other unbiblical traditions.
Jesus is described as a man attested by God, a man who mediates between us and God, a purely human being who experienced life without the addition of a "divine nature". Think about it, how could Jesus have said, done, or experienced what the New Testament records, if the entire time he were omniscient (all knowing), omnipotent (all powerful), perfectly good (untemptable in principle), and eternal (not able to die)?
The divine nature would swamp, overwhelm, trump the human nature, and the one person would simply be God faking everything Jesus does (learn, grow, suffer, overcome temptation, die).
But the good news is the New Testament doesn't teach two natures christology anyway. This is one mistake in the tradition, we Berean's can readily correct.
In the year 451, a church council met at Chalcedon, and the product was a creed that included the commitment that Jesus was "truly God and truly man". This "two natures" doctrine, does not teach the same Jesus as the New Testament, and should be dismissed by Protestant Christians, the same way they reject Papacy, prayer to the saints, the veneration of Mary, and many other unbiblical traditions.
Jesus is described as a man attested by God, a man who mediates between us and God, a purely human being who experienced life without the addition of a "divine nature". Think about it, how could Jesus have said, done, or experienced what the New Testament records, if the entire time he were omniscient (all knowing), omnipotent (all powerful), perfectly good (untemptable in principle), and eternal (not able to die)?
The divine nature would swamp, overwhelm, trump the human nature, and the one person would simply be God faking everything Jesus does (learn, grow, suffer, overcome temptation, die).
But the good news is the New Testament doesn't teach two natures christology anyway. This is one mistake in the tradition, we Berean's can readily correct.
