The Identity of Jesus

In the book The Book of Jesus, edited by Calvin Miller, there is a chapter compiled by John Blanchard, of various people, over a period of time that wrote about the identity of Jesus. Here is that chapter:

" Christ was a complete man. - Augustine

Jesus Christ is God in the form of man; as completely God as if He were not man; as completely man as if He were not God. - A. J. F. Behrends

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity. - Phillips Brooks

Christ uncrowned Himself to crown us, and put off His robes to put on our rags, and came down from heaven to keep us out of hell. He fasted forty days that He might feast us to all eternity; He came from heaven to earth that He might send us from earth to heaven. - W. Dyer

Jesus became as like us as God can be. - Donald English

Jesus did not become identical to us, He did become identified with us. - Donald English

It pleases the Father that all fullness should be in Christ; therefore there is nothing but emptiness anywhere else. - W. Gadsby

Christ's humanity is the great hem of the garment, through which we can touch His Godhead. - Richard Glover

If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Christ is our temple, in whom by faith all believers meet. - Matthew Henry

In Christ Jesus heaven meets earth and earth ascends to heaven. - Henry Law

Surely royalty in rags, angels in cells, in not descent compared to Deity in flesh! - Henry Law

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic - on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg - or else he'd be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was and is the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.... But don't let us come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He hasn't left that open to us. He didn't intend to. _ C. S. Lewis

Jesus was a Man in guise, not in disguise. - Handley C. G. Moule

He suffered not as God, but He suffered who was God. - John Owen

The impression of Jesus which the Gospels give...is not so much one of deity reduced as of divine capacities restrained. J. T. Packer

If the life and death of Socrates are those of a philosopher, the life and death of Jesus Christ are those of a God. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If you want to know what God has to say to you, see what Christ was and is.

Remember, Christ was not a deified man, neither was He a humanized God. He was perfectly God and at the same time perfectly man. - Charles H. Spurgeon

Christ was not half a God and half a man; He was perfectly God and perfectly man. - James Stalker

Because Christ was God, did He pass unscorched through the fires of Gethsemane and Calvary? Rather let us say, because Christ was God He underwent suffering that was absolutely infinite. - Augustus H. Strong "

By George Konig
10/7/2007
www.georgekonig.org

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