The Two Natures of Christ: Understanding the Divine and Human Nature

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The two natures of Christ:
The question about the nature of Christ has remained a big question throughout the
ages. Before the eighteenth century this was a living question but it was not that agitated as it
done now. Every year brought out a new life of Christ. His nature was redefined in a new
way. This is more evident by using the term, “Christology” (Taliaferro, Charles and Joshua
Farris 2016 pp. 21-32). It is the coinage of the new generation. This indicates the fact that
Jesus Christ had two natures. One was the human nature and the other was the divine nature.
It indicates the fact that the study of the Christ’s person has become a science by itself. The
New Testament of the Jesus who was the lord and the saviour grabs the attention of the
maximum amount of readers across the entire world. The character of Christ is considered to
be standard of all excellence, even by the confession of those who his enemies that is
mentioned in the gospel. In the holy gospel he himself mentioned that the people will be
judged according to their attitude towards him (Benz and Ernst 2018 pp. 22-40).
Christ is considered to be the son of the God as well as of the man. When Christ is
said to be the child of man he is considered to be a normal human being without any divine
powers. It means something beyond this. Jesus Christ is a simple man. The ancient docetic
view held extremely strong divinity that it left no scope for the humanity. This is evident in
the view that on the day of the incarnation the deity passed through the body of the virgin as
water through reed by taking up into itself nothing of the human nature through which it
passed (Tawney and Henry 2017 pp. 17-20). This was the contradiction of the scripture. On
the other hand, the book of the New Testament contains the fact that Christ was the son of
David and also of stock of Israel. The one thing that is of utmost importance is that he was
the god’s son and the god’s son is always a man (Sj, Gerald O'Collins and Gerald O'Collins
2018 pp. 101-103). This creates respect for the reality of the human body of Christ. He had a
human body and a human mind. This mind was subject to the ordinary laws of the

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development of human beings. It believed the fact that he grew up in wisdom and stature that
was in favour with God as well as man. In the arms of his mother he was not the omniscient
baby but that some have supposed. In his later years he suffered, being tempted, as he could
not have suffered. This was the condition if all the things had been open to his gaze. Even to
the last, it would seem that he was ignorant of the day of the end, for, “of that day”, he tells
us, “knoweth no man, neither the angels of God, neither the father.”
The human beings that were using the human language were being made fit by the
God in order to give the word. According to the historic Christians, the understanding of
person of the Christ is that, he is the person who possess the two different natures as
mentioned earlier, the divine and the human nature. Each nature retains the unique properties
of its own. They remain distinct and inseparable united in the Christ (Taliaferro, Charles and
Joshua Farris 2016 pp. 21-32). The historian considers the fact that according to the divine
nature of Christ, God’s son is omnipotent, omniscient and so forth. The other view considers
the fact that according to the human nature, incarnate Christ requires to eat the food in order
to survive, in order to grow the knowledge and so forth. Some thinkers have also taught that
Christ may and he did commit some amount of error in his life, after considering hypostatic
union as rationale. This is the reason it is not possible to consider the scriptures as the
authentic source. The scripture’s infallibility and inerrancy for few words of Christ might be
an error and the words are found only in New Testament. These thinkers are totally based on
the particular understanding of what it actually means to be a human being. It is a humanly
matter to make error. Even Christ has committed crime therefore he is considered to be
human. Making errors is entirely inherent to humans and some has even expressed the view
that all the scriptures may contain errors. The bible is considered to be a holy scripture but it
might contain errors. This is a holy product and therefore, it is a divine human product and it