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Essay / Jesus: The Humanity of Jesus in the Scriptures - 707
The sins of humanity, which began with Adam and Eve, created a sinful nature for all humanity. Jesus had to come in human form specifically because humanity needed a physical sacrifice for our sin. Jesus also came to fulfill the prophecy that God spoke about throughout much of the Old Testament (Galatians 4:4-5). We needed to be redeemed so that our sins could be forgiven. By placing too much emphasis on the deity of Christ, an attitude of separation can be created. Christ can become impersonal and become a being who has all power but no grace. By overemphasizing humanity, we rob it of all its power (Matt. 8:27), and by denying it, we end up with the same problem of overemphasis on divinity. We must balance these two natures of Christ in order to empower Him and connect with Him. Most common objections to Christology involve either denial or exaggeration of one of the two natures of Christ. Eutychianism emphasizes the human nature of Jesus. We can see that this is incorrect because in Colossians 2:9 it says, "For in Him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells in bodily form." Jesus is God, which means he carries his divinity with him. The second common objection is Nestorianism, which is the idea that there is only one nature of Christ. We know this is incorrect because Colossians shows his divinity and death (Rom. 5:8) shows his