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aside His divine nature in becoming human, He was humanity welded to divinity. So while on the earth
and as a human, He had to learn things (increased in knowledge), eat, sleep, cry, suffer hardships, and
experienced all of what humanity experiences…but in doing so never ceased to be God, but chose to set
aside at times His divine omniscience to be fully human. In this passage, Jesus was speaking from the
vantage point of His humanity.

From the Textbook:
One of the most complex aspects of the relationship between Christ’s two natures is that, while the
attributes of one nature are never attributed to the other, the attributes of both natures are properly
attributed to His ONE person. Thus, Christ at the same moment in time had what seem to be
contradictory qualities. He was finite and yet infinite, weak and yet omnipotent, increasing in knowledge
and yet omniscient, limited to being in one place at one time and yet omnipresent. In the incarnation,
the person of Christ is the partaker of the attributes of both natures, so that whatever may be affirmed
of either nature – human or divine – may be affirmed of the one person.

Though Christ sometimes operated in the sphere of His humanity and in other cases in the sphere of His
deity, in all cases what He did and what He was could be attributed to His one person.

This is was it means to say that God was welded to humanity in the person of Jesus Christ.

WITNESSING NOTE: Since Jesus was the Son of Man (human) and the Son of God (divine), He
demonstrated both the limitations of humanity and the limitless nature of God. For example, Jesus
knew the thoughts of men. Col 2:3 says in Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and
knowledge. Yet, demonstrating the omnipotence of God, He could speak to someone and raise Him
from the dead. Can you see in this verse, Jesus was speaking from human nature?

11. I Cor. 8:6
6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord,
Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.

JW’s argue that since there is “one God” (Jehovah) who is distinct from “one Lord” (Jesus), the Jesus
cannot be God.

It is illegitimate to conclude that Jesus is not God because He is called Lord. It would be just as
ridiculous to say that Jehovah is not God when He is called Lord. In Matthew 11:25, the Father is called
“Lord”. In John 20:28 and Hebrews 1:8, Jesus is called “God.” In fact, in Hebrews 1:8, the Father calls
the Son, “God.”

Notice that the verse also states that all things came into being through Jesus Christ.
Remember Isaiah 44:24 I, the Lord, am the maker of all things, stretching out the heavens by Myself, and
spreading out the earth all alone. In this passage, the “Lord” is Jehovah. If the Lord (Jehovah) is the
maker of all things, and He alone was the Creator, then how does it make sense for Jesus Christ to be
the Author of all things? That’s because Jesus Christ is Lord, the Creator!

WITNESSING NOTE: Does the verses that call Jehovah “Lord” mean that the Father is NOT God? Why
not? Can you see that since Jesus is called “Lord” in this verse does not mean that He is not God any
more than calling the Father “Lord” does not mean He is not God?

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