Module 4 - Christology

In the Gospel of Matthew, in Matthew 16, Jesus has an important conversation with his disciples. They’re in the town of Caesarea Philippi, a town outside of Israel, and Jesus begins in Matthew, chapter 16, verse 13, with a very simple question for his disciples: “Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?” Jesus wants his disciples to tell him what other people are saying about his identity, about who he is. The disciples tell Jesus, in verse 14, that some people say that he is John the Baptist. Some people say that he is Elijah. Other people say that he is Jeremiah. Still other people say that he is simply one of the prophets.

When we looked at Jesus’s divinity, we saw a host of places in Scripture, where Jesus is treated as or spoken of as fully God. When we come to consider the humanity of Christ, we find the same situation, yet in regard to Jesus’s humanity. There are scores of places in Scripture where we are unmistakably confronted with the humanity of Jesus, unavoidably confronted with the shocking fact that Jesus is fully and perfectly human. Often, you might hear people refer to “the incarna- tion”. And that word refers to this fact, that Jesus came in the flesh, perfect in his humanity. Carne comes from the Latin for “in the flesh. Jesus came in the flesh. He took to himself the fulness of human nature. He was incarnate. In other words, Jesus is fully a man.

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Dr. Stephen Myers (PhD, University of Edinburgh) is Associate Professor of Historical Theology for the