DLord 20, 21 - A Divine Human Nature

DLord 20

Since “the Son of God” means the Lord
in the human nature that He assumed in the world,
which is a Divine human nature,
we can see what was meant by
the Lord’s frequently saying
that He was sent into the world by the Father
and that He had gone forth from the Father.
His being sent into the world by the Father
means that He was conceived by Jehovah the Father.
This and nothing else is the meaning of
“being sent” and “sent by the Father, ”
as we can tell from all the places where it also says
that He was doing the will of the Father
and doing His works,
which were overcoming the hells,
glorifying His human nature,
teaching the Word,
and establishing a new church.
The only way these things could have been done
was by means of a human nature
conceived by Jehovah and born of a virgin --
that is, by God becoming human.

DLord 21

Many people these days think of the Lord
only as an ordinary person like themselves
because they think only of His human nature
and not at the same time of His divine nature,
when in fact His human and divine natures
cannot be separated.
“The Lord is both God and a human being;
and God and a human being in the Lord
are not two but one person.
He is one altogether,
as the soul and the body are one human being” --
this is according to
what is taught throughout the Christian world,
a teaching that has been ratified by councils
and is called the Athanasian statement of faith.