Part 6 - One Person, Two Natures - And What Happens When That Is Denied
The titles Son of God and Son of Man for Jesus are often simplified to mean divine and human, respectively. However, Scripture indicates that each title encompasses both dimensions. This six-part series examines key passages for each title and explores how they unite in one person.
Part 6 of six in the series Son of God vs Son of Man: The Two Titles of Christ.
Having walked both titles through the whole New Testament, the question that remains is how they fit together in one person — and what breaks when the answer is gotten wrong.
The historic confession is that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man, two natures united in one person without confusion, change, division, or separation. That formula is not speculative philosophy imposed on the text; it is the minimum required to hold together the passages already surveyed. A Christ who is less than God cannot bear the weight of the atonement. A Christ who is less than man has not represented us in it. Both natures are load-bearing for salvation, which is why the errors surveyed here are not academic curiosities.
Each of the four denials — the Arianism revived by the Jehovah's Witnesses, the prophet-only Isa of Islam, the two-persons division of Nestorianism, and the phantom body of Docetism — removes something the New Testament will not let go of. Related studies: Christianity vs Jehovah's Witnesses, Is Allah the God of the Bible, The Trinity, and the roles taken up here in The New Covenant.
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Raised in a Christian home, I came to faith later in life. A family crisis in 2019 drove me to study Scripture deeply, and by 2021 I answered my calling to ministry and teaching God's Word.
