THE LORD JESUS CHRIST-– HIS PERSON
We believe in the essential, absolute, eternal Deity, and the real and proper, but perfect and sinless, humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ; that Christ is the eternal Son of God, and God the Son, the Second Person of the Trinity, being very and eternal God, of one substance and equal with the Father (John 1:1-2); that when the fulness of time was come, He took upon Him man's nature, with all the essential properties thereof, including a perfect human spirit, soul, and body, yet without sin; that He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit in the womb of the virgin Mary, of her substance; that the two whole, perfect and distinct natures, the Godhead and Manhood, were inseparably joined together in one Person, without conversion, composition, or confusion; that this Person is very God and very Man, yet one Christ, the only Mediator between God and man (Philippians 2:5- 8); that, on the human side, Christ became and remained a perfect man (Luke 2:40); that He was without sin throughout His entire life even though He “was in all points tempted like as we are” (Hebrews 4:15); that He retained His absolute deity, being at the same time very God and very man; and that His earth life sometimes functioned within the sphere of that which was human and sometimes within the sphere of that which was divine.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ in His human nature thus united to the Divine, was sanctified, anointed with the Holy Spirit above measure; that He had within Him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge; that it pleased the Father that in Him all fulness should dwell; that He was holy, harmless, undefiled, and full of grace and truth; and that He was thoroughly furnished to execute the office of Mediator and Surety.