Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3010. Working out the consciousness of Christ during His earthly life pushes us further into the mystery of the incarnation than almost any other question in this series. When exactly did Jesus become aware that He was the eternal Son of God? From the moment of birth? Earlier still, in the womb? Or did…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 3008. Whether the impeccability of Christ is actually true has occupied theologians for most of church history, and I understand why the question keeps resurfacing. If Jesus could not have sinned, was His temptation in the wilderness genuine? If He could have sinned, what does that imply about His deity, and about the security…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3006. We rightly emphasise the deity of Jesus, but the humanity of Jesus receives just as much insistence in Scripture, and I do not think we can afford to let either truth crowd out the other. If Jesus was not genuinely human, He did not genuinely die, and if He did not genuinely die,…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 3005. The hypostatic union is, in my judgment, one of the most profound truths in the whole of Christian theology, and also one of the most practically important. It describes how Jesus Christ can be fully God and fully man at the same time, united inseparably in one Person, without either nature swallowing up…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3001. The identity of Jesus is, I think, the one question none of us gets to avoid indefinitely. Jesus put it to His own disciples at Caesarea Philippi, and He still puts it to every person who hears about Him: “But who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15). People have offered plenty…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3000. Christology, once you get past the imposing name, is simply the study of Christ, and I want to start there because the word puts people off far more than the subject deserves. It sounds like something reserved for seminary corridors and footnoted journals, when in fact every Christian is already doing Christology every…