CHRISTIAN

LIVING
EDUCATION
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WHAT MAKES
MAN TRULY
HUMAN?
 Objectives:
Doctrine: Explain Jesus’ being fully human
and fully divine.

Morals: Show love to others as a concrete way of

pagpapakatao.

Worship: Show in the Nicene Creed the belief on

Jesus’ natures.
JESUS FULLY HUMAN,
FULLY DIVINE
HYPOSTATIC UNION
CHRISTOLOGY
• The study of Jesus Christ
and His provision of
salvation for a lost humanity
• Christ is Christianity.
Without Him, Christianity has
no meaning.
 Jesus Christ is
the THEME of Scripture
Old Testament
Humanity falls into sin; they need a savior
God promises that David’s family will rule forever
The Prophets declare that a Messiah is coming

New Testament
The Gospels tell of His life and death
His message is spread through the Book of Acts
Churches are established in His name
Revelation tells us that He’s coming again

Jesus can be seen throughout all of scripture, whether

in the shadows waiting for the right time to be
revealed or clearly in the New Testament.

Jesus is the centerpiece of our faith!

The Nature of Christ
Without losing his divine
nature, the Son of God
assumed a human nature.
Christ was at all times one
Divine Person with two
natures.
Christians call this the
hypostatic union.
 HYPOSTATIC UNION
The term “hypostatic” comes from
the Greek word
‘υποστασιs
“hypostasis” and means
“substantial nature, essence,
actual being, reality” Heb. 1:3
states that Christ is “an exact
representation of his (= God’s)
real being.”
Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD
declares that Jesus is
perfect both in His divinity and
in His humanity,
truly God and truly Man…
One divine person (hypostasis)
With two natures (physis)…
Divine and Human
Not…
Divine/
Human Divine Human
Hybrid
Mix

50% Human
(Demigod Heresy) (Werewolf Heresy)
50% God
Like this…
The Hypostatic Union

Human Divine

100% Human
100% God
The Humanity of Jesus

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He had a human parent

• Mary was his mother

Mary is Theotokos = God

bearer

• Joseph was not biological

related to Jesus, but he did
act like a father to Jesus
In Matthew 1:1-17 when can read Jesus’ Genealogy
– lineage

It shows that Jesus shares a common origin with us

through Adam and Eve.
Jesus had human names

• Jesus
• Son of Man
• Jesus of Nazareth
• The Man Jesus Christ
 Jesus had a human
appearance

Jewish
(see John 4:9, 20:14-15, 21:4-5)
Jesus had a body and a soul, just like
humans do
Jesus had human issues
and experiences:
PAI
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HUNGER
THIRST
FATIGU
WEARINESS E
Jesus grew and developed
Jesus performed human activities

He prayed He worked He learned

The Deity of Jesus
Jesus performed divine activities

was worshipped
Matthew 2:11

He created
John 1:1-3 exercised
forgave sin Judgment
Matthew 9:2 2 Tim. 4:1
Jesus had a divine conception
Jesus was born
through the power
of the Holy Spirit.

It was not by
human
intervention or will
 INCARNATION
• Jesus’ divine conception is what we called Incarnation.
• In Carne = In Flesh
• John 1:14 – “The Word made flesh”
• The Incarnation is the mystery and the dogma of the
Word made Flesh. ln this technical sense the
word incarnation was adopted, during the twelfth century,
from the Norman-French, which in turn had taken the
word over from the Latin incarnatio.
Jesus had divine names

• God
• Son of God
• Lord
• Immanuel
Jesus could show His
divine appearance at
will (Luke 9:27-36)

TRANSFIGURATION
 The Transfiguration of Our
Lord is the mystery of light par
excellence. It announces
Christ's Resurrection, the final
victory of light over darkness,
life over death. We see in the
glory of God shinning forth
from the face of Christ the
promise of our own
resurrection and eternal life.
Jesus had divine characteristics

Eternal Omniscient Omnipotent

Rev. 1:8 John 20:30-31
John 1:48

Omnipresent Immutable
Matthew 28:20 Hebrews 13:8
THEANTHROPOS
Jesus is the Theanthropos
or God-Man

Theo – God
Anthropos - Man