Module 4 - Christology

 

The Humanity of Christ

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When we looked at Jesus’s divinity, we saw a host of places in Scripture, where Jesus is treated as or spoken of as fully God. When we come to consider the humanity of Christ, we find the same situation, yet in regard to Jesus’s humanity. There are scores of places in Scripture where we are unmistakably confronted with the humanity of Jesus, unavoidably confronted with the shocking fact that Jesus is fully and perfectly human. Often, you might hear people refer to “the incarna- tion”. And that word refers to this fact, that Jesus came in the flesh, perfect in his humanity. Carne comes from the Latin for “in the flesh. Jesus came in the flesh. He took to himself the fulness of human nature. He was incarnate. In other words, Jesus is fully a man.