We believe that Jesus Christ is the second Person of the Triune God, who has always been and was never created. The Lord Jesus is eternal God, equally one with God the Father and God the Holy Ghost. He is Creator God (Genesis 1:1; Colossians 1:16-17; Hebrews 1:1-3). In His position within the Godhead, He is the Son of God, though wholly God and not a lesser created being by God. Without giving up His Deity, Jesus Christ became Man by the miracle of the virgin birth in that He was begotten of the Holy Spirit and born of Mary, a virgin. Since Mary was herself created by God and a sinner saved by grace (Luke 1:47), we do not believe it is accurate to say she is the “Mother of God,” but rather the mother of our Lord’s humanity, the instrument God used to enter the world as a Man.
During Christ’s earthly ministry, He demonstrated His nature as both 100% Man and 100% God. Christ experienced hunger, thirst, weariness, pain and sorrow as every man, yet without sin. (Isaiah 53:3; Luke 22:44; Matthew 21:18; 26:37-39; John 19:28; Hebrews 4:15) Simultaneously, He demonstrated His power to know the inward thoughts of man, and rule entirely over nature, demons, disease, death, Satan and Hell. (John 1:48; Matthew 8:3; Mark 1:42; Luke 7:14-15; John 11:43-44; Hebrews 2;14)
The Lord Jesus gave up His own life; it was not taken from Him (Luke 23:46). As the perfect Lamb of God, He gave Himself as the complete substitute for the sin of all mankind by paying the death penalty when He shed His blood and died upon the cross. His death was ascertained by the Roman Centurion who pierced His side from whence flowed blood and water. For His burial, He was wrapped and laid in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathaea, and guarded in a sealed tomb by Roman soldiers. On the third day, Christ arose literally and bodily from the dead, and was present on earth for 40 days. During those 40 days, the Lord Jesus was seen multiple times by many people including disciples, and above 500 brethren at once, in which He walked, talked and ate normal food with people, appeared and disappeared. His ascension to Heaven was witnessed by the Apostles, and He was also seen by the Apostle Paul at his conversion. Now in Heaven at the right hand of God, Jesus is our High Priest and advocate with the Father. Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 24:2-8, 51; John 1:1-3, 14; Acts 1:3,9; 20:28; I Corinthians 15:1-7; Philippians 2:6-8;; Hebrews 1:8; 4:14-16.