Of Jesus Christ, true God and man, the only Savior of the world (Second Helvetic Confession, 11b)
Prof. Ronald Cammenga expounds on the Second Helvetic Confession's teaching that Jesus Christ is true God and true man, emphasizing that Christ's real humanity—including his virgin conception and birth—is essential to His work as Savior. The article defends orthodox Christology against historical heresies that denied either Christ's deity or His genuine human nature, demonstrating how proper understanding of Christ's person undergirds the completeness of salvation.
Christ Is True Man, Having Real Flesh We also believe and teach that the eternal Son of the eternal God was made the Son of God, from the seed of Abraham and David, not from the coitus of a man, as the Ebionites said, but was most chastely conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the ever virgin Mary, as the evangelical history carefully explains to us (Matthew 1). And Paul says: "He took not on him the nature of angels, but of the seed of Abraham." Also the apostle John says that whoever does...
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