Subject: HOW COULD JESUS BE A DESCENDANT OF DAVID |
Bible Note: Hi, Rob: Leaving percentages aside, perhaps it is better to say simply that Jesus was fully God and fully man. But Steve it not splitting hairs, Rob! It is of fundamental and foundational importance to the Christian faith and confession that Jesus was indeed fully God and fully man. Anything else leads us down the dark road to heretical views such as Docetism and Gnosticism. Do I presume to understand this doctrine with my weak and wobbly finite mind? No! Neither can it fathom the depths of understanding that would lead me to be able to know and explain how the transcendent God spoke the universe into existence or taught the bee how to make honey. We walk, don't we brother, by faith and not by sight? My mother, long gone to her reward, was so fond of saying, "We'll understand it better by and by." And, if the Lord wills, perhaps we shall. Happy Thanksgiving. --Hank |