A precious truth about our Lord is that he is like us in all things except sin (Hebrews 4:15). That it is like us means that it had our human nature in addition to its divine nature. He is both God and man himself.
When we talk about the human nature of Christ, several important truths are emphasized, especially five: He had a real, complete, sinless and weak human nature, and a central human nature of the covenant line.
Each of these truths is of paramount importance to our salvation
That Christ had a true human nature must be emphasized against the teaching – some in the early church and some sects today – that Christ appeared only in the form of a man, but did not actually have a true human body, flesh. and blood, not a true human soul like us. His humanity, it is said, was simply an appearance, something like an angel appearing in the form of a man.
But if Christ did not have a true human nature, our salvation is not real either; if his human nature was only an appearance, so was his suffering and death, as was our salvation, the reality of our salvation depends on the reality of your human nature. Hebrews 2:14, 15 says:
And, as the children participate in flesh and blood, he too participated in the same things, so that with death he could annihilate what the empire of death had, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who, by death, were subjected to servitude for life ?
The Bible teaches the reality of Christ’s human nature not only by emphasizing the fact that he was like us in everything, even being tempted (He 4:15), but also in many other ways. In all these passages that speak of Jesus being born, growing up, learning, obeying, eating, drinking, getting tired, crying, suffering and dying, everyone tells us that he really was a man, like us in everything. Doubting the realidad. de his agony in Gethsemane, his pain at Peter’s denial and Judas’s betrayal, and his agony for being abandoned on the cross, is to doubt not only his honesty, but also our salvation through these sufferings.
Christ is therefore the bone of our bones and flesh of our flesh (Eph 5:30), capable of representing us before God and giving his life in sacrifice for our sins; being a man, he was able to pay. for the sin of man and take us to God.
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