I have figured out a way to explain the humanity and the deity of Christ. As far as the "man" goes, the flesh that embodied Jesus Christ was not in eternity. His "flesh" side consisted of the skin cells, hair, and other parts of his body formed in the womb of Mary by the Holy Spirit. The body of Christ was created.
I don't believe this is heresy. Jesus Christ was truly God and truly man. However, he did not have the same nature of man because a man was not the father of the child in Mary's womb. If we say the physical body of Christ was eternal, then flesh would be considered before time was created by God. This is inconsistent with the story of creation. Everything that exists on this earth had a starting point and God pre-existed before it. Therefore, the body structure of Jesus Christ was created by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Paul refers to Christ as the second Adam in the sense that his act brought forgiveness to many. We have a man who is not participating in the original sin. In my mind, he's just like Adam before the fall. He only knows good and only desires to serve God to the fullest. When God created the first Adam, he was perfect because a perfect God can only create perfect beings. The body and man-nature of Jesus Christ was perfect because he was created by God. However, Jesus Christ was not only a mere man, but he possessed the very nature of God right side by side with a man nature, and although the man nature had not sin, it was nonetheless still truly man.
God created himself a body that did not exist prior to creation, in the form of Jesus Christ. That body had a man nature and was without sin because it was created by a perfect God. God in his essence came down and dwelt among us in a sinless body. We say that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. In the sense of eternity, we're talking about the essence of Christ.
A man had to pay the price for the act of rebellion against God at the garden. That man was the man nature created by the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary. He was perfect and without sin and obedient to God as Adam was obedient to God before the fall.
The man Christ was the perfect sacrifice on the cross because he was without sin. He died and was raised from the grave by God in the same body as he was when on this earth. His body was transformed beyond the potential of sin and glorified in heaven when presented before the Father. We know he came back after being presented before the Father and was recognized as he had been on this earth before he died. He did tell Mary not to touch him before his glorification. But there is no explanation scripture to tell us precisely why he could not be touched by a human before he was glorified. Paul does tell us later of the promise of a glorified body.
This is why we have to hope in him and the testimony to which he testifies. He has gone before us as a man and has been approved by God through the resurrection. Our hope is in the acceptance that God has shown to him. He is the first born of many, spiritually, in a glorified body. I cannot see anything wrong with distinguishing the ethical body that got used to incarnate himself on this earth from the very essence of God who dwelt in that body.
I don't believe this is heresy. Jesus Christ was truly God and truly man. However, he did not have the same nature of man because a man was not the father of the child in Mary's womb. If we say the physical body of Christ was eternal, then flesh would be considered before time was created by God. This is inconsistent with the story of creation. Everything that exists on this earth had a starting point and God pre-existed before it. Therefore, the body structure of Jesus Christ was created by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Paul refers to Christ as the second Adam in the sense that his act brought forgiveness to many. We have a man who is not participating in the original sin. In my mind, he's just like Adam before the fall. He only knows good and only desires to serve God to the fullest. When God created the first Adam, he was perfect because a perfect God can only create perfect beings. The body and man-nature of Jesus Christ was perfect because he was created by God. However, Jesus Christ was not only a mere man, but he possessed the very nature of God right side by side with a man nature, and although the man nature had not sin, it was nonetheless still truly man.
God created himself a body that did not exist prior to creation, in the form of Jesus Christ. That body had a man nature and was without sin because it was created by a perfect God. God in his essence came down and dwelt among us in a sinless body. We say that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. In the sense of eternity, we're talking about the essence of Christ.
A man had to pay the price for the act of rebellion against God at the garden. That man was the man nature created by the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary. He was perfect and without sin and obedient to God as Adam was obedient to God before the fall.
The man Christ was the perfect sacrifice on the cross because he was without sin. He died and was raised from the grave by God in the same body as he was when on this earth. His body was transformed beyond the potential of sin and glorified in heaven when presented before the Father. We know he came back after being presented before the Father and was recognized as he had been on this earth before he died. He did tell Mary not to touch him before his glorification. But there is no explanation scripture to tell us precisely why he could not be touched by a human before he was glorified. Paul does tell us later of the promise of a glorified body.
This is why we have to hope in him and the testimony to which he testifies. He has gone before us as a man and has been approved by God through the resurrection. Our hope is in the acceptance that God has shown to him. He is the first born of many, spiritually, in a glorified body. I cannot see anything wrong with distinguishing the ethical body that got used to incarnate himself on this earth from the very essence of God who dwelt in that body.
