IIB. God the Son

Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His Incarnation as Jesus Christ, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgn Mary. Jesus perfectly revealed and did the will of God, taking upon Himself human nature with all its demands and necessities, completely identifying Himself with mankind yet without sin. He honored the divine law by His obedience, and in his substitutionary death on the cross He made provision for the redemption of men from sin. He was raised from the dead with a glorified body and appeared to His disciples as the person who was with them before His crucifixion. He ascended into heaven and is exalted at the right hand of God as the One Mediator, fully God, fully man, effecting in His Person the reconciliation between God and man. He will return in power and glory to consummate His redemptive mission. He now dwells in every believer as the living and ever-present Lord.