JESUS CHRIST AND SALVATION SUMMARY PART 2

Jesus Christ is one of the Persons of the Godhead and when He came to earth as a human 2000 years ago, He still was God! And I believe that His body, soul, and spirit are completely divine before, during and after the incarnation. I believe that He had a sinless human-like body that had most of a regular person’s physical experiences and He had a divine sinless soul with a divine spirit. I believe that Jesus was fully divine including His physical body. Because He was tested in all ways as a regular human and He who knew no sin took humanity’s sin at the cross, so He was able to be our Redeemer!( 2 Corinthians 5: 21). I believe He was completely divine before, during and after the incarnation!

I am in agreement with Erickson in that he says “that as a key element of Christology, belief in the Virgin birth is necessary for Christian theology.”1 From the Biblical perspective this was a miraculous occurrence that tests a person’s position on the miraculous, which I feel is easy to belief after they have a regeneration, that is, ‘new-birth’ or ‘born-again’ experience! One of the significances of the teaching of the Virgin Birth is that it is a reminder that salvation is supernatural! Jesus was not just a special human being who taught nice things, but He was God Himself who came in the flesh (John 1: 1.14), and so this is the reason why it is all a supernatural miracle including all future generations who make a confession of faith by turning to Him, are pronounced ‘not guilty’ or justified and have a ‘born-again experience.

Because of Man’s fall, he needed to be saved from the condition of sinfulness. And because of his sinful nature he cannot atone or forgive his own or other human’s sins! “Since this is true, it follows that the atonement, to accomplish for humanity what needed to be done, had to be made by someone else on humanity’s behalf!”2 So this is where Jesus, God incarnate, enters the world who came to show God’s heart and who died on the cross, shedding His blood because “His death is of sufficient value to atone for the entire human race.”3 I believe that even though the atonement is universal in extent, still not everyone gets saved as humans have a free-will and they can choose to believe on Jesus as Savior for their sins or not to believe. But Jesus gives to everyone the same opportunity to be saved! God created Man knowing that He Himself would be the ‘perfect Lamb’ and knowing that He was preparing an inheritance for those who believed, so that they would become joint-heirs with Christ forever!

NOTES
1Millard J. Erickson, Christian Theology,(Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006),756.
2Ibid.,821.
3Ibid., 822.