Who Is Jesus? God or Man?

 WHO IS JESUS? GOD OR MAN?

The Bible teaches that Jesus is God! But it also teaches that He is human. We know this can certainly be confusing, in fact, it is one of the great mysteries of Christianity. But even though it's hard to understand, it's essential to Christian teaching.

If Jesus wasn't fully human, He couldn't have paid the price for human sin, and He couldn't have experienced a real death in order to pay that price (Romans 6.23). On the other hand, if Jesus wasn't fully God, He couldn't have lived a perfect life without sin, and therefore, He wouldn't be able to count us as righteous (2 Corinthians 5.21) and give us new life through the power of His resurrection (1 Peter 1.3).

Christians throughout history have referred to this as the hypostatic union. That is a fancy way of saying that Jesus Christ has two natures united in one Person: He is both fully God and fully man. These two natures cannot be separated, and neither can they be devalued, for if He was any less human or any less God, His death and resurrection wouldn't be able to save humanity from their sin.