Charles Spurgeon Quotes

God himself took this human flesh upon him.

God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.

If we take seriously the word-flesh Christology of Chalcedon (i.e., the doctrine that Christ is fully human and fully divine) and view Christ as the telos toward which God is drawing the whole of creation, then any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.

It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right? It's not correct to say that - Jesus is the union of the human and the divine. That's different.

Most of the Catholics Christians I've met would for all practical purposes believe Jesus is God only, and we are human only. We missed the big point. The point is the integration, both in Jesus and ourselves.

There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord.

Christ is God clothed with human nature.

The Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God.

Only by being both deity and humanity could Jesus Christ bridge the gap between where God is.

Although Christ was God, he took flesh; and having been made man, he remained what he was, God.

And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh.

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

I have thoroughly gone through the subject of the Incarnation; and if it served you, could at any time give you the history from the beginning of the controversies on this subject, and of its present form.

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.

Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

I believe that He was made man, joining the human nature with the divine in one person; being conceived by the singular operation of the Holy Ghost, and born of the blessed Virgin Mary, who, as well after as before she brought Him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin.

God without Christ is no God.

Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the first order.

Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.

The way you become divine is to become wholly human.

In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.

The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.

The Son of God became man so that we might become God.