Jesus is both fully God and fully man. Since Jesus did not leave earth into a divine form (Acts 1:9), but rather came to earth in human form (1Jo. 4:2; Col. 2:9; 1Tim. 3:16), there is an implied eternality of Christ’s deity (Heb. 13:8), which also existed while He was in human form (Jo. 1:14; Phil. 2:6; 1Tim 2:5). In His fullness of humanity, Jesus felt sadness (Jo. 11:33-34), betrayal (Jo. 13:21), taste (Jo. 19:30), thirst (Jo. 4:6-7), hunger (Matt. 4:2), compassion (Matt 9:36), He cried (Jo. 11:35; Luke 19:41), people touched and grabbed Him (Matt. 9:25; Mark 1:31; Luke 4:40; Jo. 9:1), and He grew in wisdom (Luke 2:52). In His fullness of deity, Jesus raises the dead to life (Jo. 10:18), is omniscient (Jo. 16:29-30; Jo. 21:17), omnipotent (Matt. 8:26-27), shows Himself as the Christ through means of miracles (Jo. 20:31; Jo. 2:11), and has divine authority (Mark 1:27; 4:40-41). In another sense, since God cannot be tempted (Jam. 1:13), the fact that Satan tempted Jesus (Luke 4:6-7; 13) indicates that Jesus at least had a human nature capable of being tempted, and perhaps why Jesus succeeded in not sinning is because of the coupling together of His fullness of humanity and His fullness of deity.
The Holy Spirit and Mary’s conception played a role in Jesus’ fullness of deity and fullness of humanity; they verified and confirmed His fullness of deity and humanity. Since Jesus was born of a sinful woman (Luke 2:7), He inherited a sinful nature; however, because the other member of Jesus’ conception was the Holy Spirit (Matt. 1:20; Luke 1:35), the Spirit in its fullness of deity, corrected the defilements that would have been passed on by Mary, causing Jesus to obtain the fullness of humanity. Jesus was fully man in the sense that He was more man than Mary was, because unlike us, God the Holy Spirit filled the holes that exist because of sin. While Mary did not give Jesus His fullness of deity, through means of the miraculous Virgin Birth, Mary was the means through which God sent a sign that His Chosen One had arrived (Is. 7:14).
The Holy Spirit and Mary’s conception played a role in Jesus’ fullness of deity and fullness of humanity; they verified and confirmed His fullness of deity and humanity. Since Jesus was born of a sinful woman (Luke 2:7), He inherited a sinful nature; however, because the other member of Jesus’ conception was the Holy Spirit (Matt. 1:20; Luke 1:35), the Spirit in its fullness of deity, corrected the defilements that would have been passed on by Mary, causing Jesus to obtain the fullness of humanity. Jesus was fully man in the sense that He was more man than Mary was, because unlike us, God the Holy Spirit filled the holes that exist because of sin. While Mary did not give Jesus His fullness of deity, through means of the miraculous Virgin Birth, Mary was the means through which God sent a sign that His Chosen One had arrived (Is. 7:14).
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