I do not wish to do so. Christ was at once God and man. In His created human nature He had deliberately subjected Himself to God’s will. But, since in Him there was but the one personality, He had to use the personal pronoun “I,” whether referring to His divinity or to His humanity. If He referred to His divinity He wag equal to the Father. As regards His humanity, He was less than the Father. All such difficulties are solved by a correct notion of Christ as God made man, yet made man in such a way that He never ceased to be God. Had He ceased to be God, all the real value of His life and death for us would have been lost.
Radio Replies Volume 1 by Rev. Dr. Leslie Rumble MSC and Rev. Charles Mortimer Carty
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