From the Heidelberg Catechism:
15. Q. What kind of mediator and deliverer should we look for then?
A. One who is truly human and truly righteous, yet more powerful than all creatures, that is, one who is also true God.
16. Q. Why must he be truly human and truly righteous?
A. God's justice demands that human nature, which has sinned, must for its sin; but a sinner could never pay for others.
17. Q. Why must he also be true God?
A. So that, but the power of his divinity, he might bear the weight of God's anger in his humanity and earn for us and restore to us righteousness and life.
18. Q. And who is this mediator, true God and at the same time truly human and truly righteous?
A. Our Lord Jesus Christ, who was given us to set us completely free and to make us right with God.
"For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all." 1 Timothy 2:5-6
Amen for that!
15. Q. What kind of mediator and deliverer should we look for then?
A. One who is truly human and truly righteous, yet more powerful than all creatures, that is, one who is also true God.
16. Q. Why must he be truly human and truly righteous?
A. God's justice demands that human nature, which has sinned, must for its sin; but a sinner could never pay for others.
17. Q. Why must he also be true God?
A. So that, but the power of his divinity, he might bear the weight of God's anger in his humanity and earn for us and restore to us righteousness and life.
18. Q. And who is this mediator, true God and at the same time truly human and truly righteous?
A. Our Lord Jesus Christ, who was given us to set us completely free and to make us right with God.
"For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all." 1 Timothy 2:5-6
Amen for that!
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