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Tuesday 30 April 2024

The individual human Son

  The Father did produce the Son. The Father succeeded in producing a Son without that Son being Himself. He produced an individual. The Son in a form as God then took the human body which the Father provided for him and did not consider this robbery, even though it made him a little lower than the angels and mortal. Such was his righteous submission. This Son is an individual entirely distinct from the Father and fully like us, a real human being. Even raised now from the dead Jesus is still the Son of Man, the man who is mediator between God and humans. He never sinned and never sins but his humanness is the same as those who he will one day raise from the dead and was human like other humans even on the cross when he died there. God wanted someone righteous and sinless but the same as those to whom he sent the Son. Are we fully God and fully human? Jesus came to us a human like us. How do we know the Father made him an individual fully distinct from the Father? Because he cited the Father as a second witness beside himself to give a legally fully valid second testimony  beside his own testimony about himself. This is reported twice in the Gospel of John (John 5:37, John 8:18) and in his epistle too (1 John 5:9).