Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was born into the world through a woman, Mary. Mary was found to be with child by the miraculous work Holy Spirit without a human father (Matthew 1:18; Luke 1:26-38). It was prophesied in Isaiah 7:14. The virgin birth is not a self-contradictory statement. God could and did make it happen. This is how Jesus came to be incarnated into a human body.

In the incarnation the functional limitations of being a human were imposed on Jesus’ divine nature. The incarnation was more of an addition to the standard human attributes than it was a lessening of the divine attributes. Jesus’ humanity was humanity as it was intended to be united with His divine nature. The incarnation shows that salvation must come from the Lord. It can never come through human effort; salvation must be the work of God Himself. The Virgin birth makes the uniting of full human

Christ came into the world to do His Father’s work (John 6:38). Jesus death fulfilled many Old Testament prophecies (Isaiah 53). Jesus’ death was a ransom (Matthew 20:28); He came to liberate those enslaved to sin. Jesus was the substitute and sacrifice for sinful human beings (John 15:13; John 17:19; Eph. 5:2). Jesus took away the sins of the world (John 1:29; John 11:49-50). He died in our behalf (Romans 5:8). Christ’s death was propitiatory and appeased God’s wrath towards sin. Jesus’ death has an eternal, once-for-all effect for the atonement for the sins of all humankind (Hebrews 9:8). Jesus’ death reconciled us to God. It ended the estrangement and enmity that once existed between God and humans. The atonement is for a limited group of people (1 Tim. 4:10). The atonement demonstrates God’s love, justice and triumph over evil.

Conversion is the decisive turning away from selfishness and sin towards obedience and God. Conversion involved repentance, realization of sin and the decision to turn from it (2 Chr. 7:14). God enables the unregenerate to repent (Jer. 13:23; Hos 5:4). Faith is the means by which justification and salvation are received. Faith has intellectual, emotional and volitional elements (1 Cor. 15:3-5; John 1:12).

All humans were born with an inherited sin nature resulting in their preference for darkness over light (1 Cor. 15:20-22; John 3:19). We are all born under the sentence of physical, spiritual and eternal death (Romans 5:12; Ephesians 5:13-14; Romans 6:23a). Regeneration is the renewing of a person’s heart and life by God (Titus 3:5; Colossians 2:13). Regeneration means re-creation (2 Cor. 5:17). It is not based on any merit found in a particular person (Colossians 2:13; Ephesians 2:4-5). Regeneration is new birth (John 1:13).

Jesus Christ was both fully God and fully human. Jesus was fully human in that he seemed to share in our very same human weaknesses and limitations. His human body and mind grew and developed (Luke 2:40). Jesus experienced tiredness, hunger and thirst (John 4:6; Matthew 4:2; John 19:28). Jesus had a human soul and human emotions (John 12:27; Matthew 26:38). Even the people nearest to Jesus viewed him as being only a man. Many did not believe Him (Matthew 13:58). Jesus was not partly human, half human, or even temporarily human; Jesus had a full, undiminished humanity.

When believers are glorified, it will be the final step in the application of their redemption. When Christ returns he will reunite believer’s souls with their new perfect resurrection bodies (1 Cor. 15: 12-58; 1 Thess. 4:14). Resurrection bodies will not wear out or grow old; they will be raised in glory and power. God will renew the entire creation as well (Rom 8:21).

Jesus is fully God (John 1:1; Colossians 1:15-20; 2:9, Hebrews 1:1-13). Jes

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