JESUS CHRIST: GOD-MAN - Vital Christianity

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● Son of God (Mt 4:3,6, 8:29, 14:33, 16:16, 27:54; Lk 1:35, 4:41; Jn 1:149; 9:35,
10:36, 11:17)
● Son of Man (8:20, 9:6; 12:40, 13:41, 16:27, 17:9,12,22, 18:11, 19:28, 20:28,
21:42, 24:30, 26:18; etc.)
● Son of Mary (Mk 6:3)
● Son of the Most High (Lk 1:32)
● Stone (Mt 21:42; Mk 12:10; Ac 4:11; Ro 9:32-33; Eph 2:20; 1 Pe 2:6-7)
● Sun of Righteousness (Mal 4:2)
● Teacher (Master—Mt 26:18; Jn 3:2; 11:28)
● Truth (14:6)
● Wisdom of God (1 Co 1:24)
● Wonderful (Isa 9:6)
● Word (Jn 1:1; Rev 19:13)
He possesses the Attributes of Deity
● He is Eternal (Mic 5:2; Jn. 1:15; 8:58; 17:5,24).
The prophet Micah not only gives the birthplace of Jesus (which the Jews affirmed as
being Bethlehem, the city of David), but he gives a clue as to His identity—God in human form:
"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah,
out of you will come for Me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are
from of old, from ancient times" (Mic 5:2).
The King James Version uses the term "goings forth" which means "origin." According
to Old Testament scholars Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown the terms used
"convey the strongest assertion of infinite duration of which the Hebrew language is capable" (Ps
90:2; Pr 8:22-23; Jn 1:1). The only one who fits this description, whose origin is "from
everlasting" or "from ancient times" must be God Himself, since He alone is "the eternally
existing One" (Isa 44:6,8; Ex 3:14).
Probably the clearest New Testament reference to the eternal nature of Christ's being is
found in 1 John 1:2 where He is actually called "the eternal life":
". . . this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. The life appeared; we have
seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life."
That it is Jesus that is referred to as "the eternal life" is obvious by the description of this
life: we have "heard, seen, looked at, touched" (1 Jn 1:1) and this life has "appeared" (v. 2). Such
concrete descriptions can only be applied to none other than Jesus.