Amir, thank you for this very perceptive question. God is beyond our ability to fully comprehend. He understands and knows us, for he created us, and he deeply loves and cares for each one of us whom he created. However, we cannot fully understand his powerful and miraculous ways of working. We know for certain that God is one. God has told us this repeatedly through his prophets. In the fifth book of Moses which is also called Deuteronomy in the 6th chapter, verse 4 and 5, God tells us “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” God also told his people through Moses “these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.” Deuteronomy 6:6-7 God wants us to read all of the writings of his prophets, to learn them, think about them and let them penetrate and change our hearts. I say this because it is impossible to answer your question in just a few sentences. Please read the writings of Moses, the psalms of David and the Injil. Learn these words of God. Take your time to read and study and learn them.
I will try now to give a short answer to your question. God spoke through the Prophet David, “The Lord says to my Lord: Sit at my right hand” Psalm 110:1. God also spoke to the prophet David through the prophet Nathan: ” I will raise up your offspring after you… I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son” 2 Samuel 7:12-14. Both of these are truths God gave to his prophets. Both are the truth about the Christ whom God promised to send to rescue people from the power of Satan. The Christ whom God promised to send has many names: Messiah, Christ, Anointed one, The Prophet, Savior, Immanuel (God with us).
During the life of the Prophet Jesus, he was approached by some religious leaders who were trying to deceive him. In the Gospel of Jesus according to Matthew, chapter 22:41-46 it is recorded:
“Now while the Pharisees [religious leaders] were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.” He said to them, “How is it then that David, in the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying,
“‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand,
until I put your enemies under your feet”’?
If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?” And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.”
When we first read these words that the Prophet Jesus spoke, it can seem that he is saying that there is a contradiction. We know that the Lord is God. And David’s Lord is God. What does it mean that the Lord said to my Lord? Is it saying that there are two Gods?
We also know that David’s son is human. From the time of David until the birth of the Prophet Jesus, everyone knew that the Christ/Messiah will be the “Son of David”: a human. However, God kept telling his people in quiet and indirect ways, that the Christ/Messiah would also be God!
You ask, “Is Christ human or God?” God’s word, spoken and written by his prophets tells us clearly that the answer is YES! Yes, Christ is human, the Son of David. Yes, Christ is God!
Our human minds cannot understand this. We fall down in awe at a miracle we could never imagine. The Messiah, the Christ, is God and he is human.
Amir, thank you for this very perceptive question. God is beyond our ability to fully comprehend. He understands and knows us, for he created us, and he deeply loves and cares for each one of us whom he created. However, we cannot fully understand his powerful and miraculous ways of working. We know for certain that God is one. God has told us this repeatedly through his prophets. In the fifth book of Moses which is also called Deuteronomy in the 6th chapter, verse 4 and 5, God tells us “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” God also told his people through Moses “these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.” Deuteronomy 6:6-7 God wants us to read all of the writings of his prophets, to learn them, think about them and let them penetrate and change our hearts. I say this because it is impossible to answer your question in just a few sentences. Please read the writings of Moses, the psalms of David and the Injil. Learn these words of God. Take your time to read and study and learn them.
I will try now to give a short answer to your question. God spoke through the Prophet David, “The Lord says to my Lord: Sit at my right hand” Psalm 110:1. God also spoke to the prophet David through the prophet Nathan: ” I will raise up your offspring after you… I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son” 2 Samuel 7:12-14. Both of these are truths God gave to his prophets. Both are the truth about the Christ whom God promised to send to rescue people from the power of Satan. The Christ whom God promised to send has many names: Messiah, Christ, Anointed one, The Prophet, Savior, Immanuel (God with us).
During the life of the Prophet Jesus, he was approached by some religious leaders who were trying to deceive him. In the Gospel of Jesus according to Matthew, chapter 22:41-46 it is recorded:
“Now while the Pharisees [religious leaders] were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.” He said to them, “How is it then that David, in the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying,
“‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand,
until I put your enemies under your feet”’?
If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?” And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.”
When we first read these words that the Prophet Jesus spoke, it can seem that he is saying that there is a contradiction. We know that the Lord is God. And David’s Lord is God. What does it mean that the Lord said to my Lord? Is it saying that there are two Gods?
We also know that David’s son is human. From the time of David until the birth of the Prophet Jesus, everyone knew that the Christ/Messiah will be the “Son of David”: a human. However, God kept telling his people in quiet and indirect ways, that the Christ/Messiah would also be God!
You ask, “Is Christ human or God?” God’s word, spoken and written by his prophets tells us clearly that the answer is YES! Yes, Christ is human, the Son of David. Yes, Christ is God!
Our human minds cannot understand this. We fall down in awe at a miracle we could never imagine. The Messiah, the Christ, is God and he is human.