Is Jesus still fully human?
PARSONS: Yes.
CARTER: We give a resounding yes.
PARSONS: If R.C. were here, he would say that “fully God and fully man” is not the best phrasing. Instead, we would prefer to use the more accurate creedal language, “truly God, truly man”—vere Deus, vere homo. So when we speak of Jesus Christ, while John might say “the Word was,” we can appropriately, in theological terms, speak of “Jesus who is.”
This is a transcript of Burk Parsons’ and Anthony Carter’s answers given during our What We Believe: 2019 Atlanta Conference and has been lightly edited for readability. To ask Ligonier a biblical or theological question, email ask@ligonier.org or message us on Facebook or Twitter.
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Dr. Burk Parsons is senior pastor of Saint Andrew’s Chapel in Sanford, Fla., chief editorial officer for Ligonier Ministries, editor of Tabletalk magazine, and a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow. He is author of Why Do We Have Creeds?, editor of Assured by God and John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, and Doxology, and cotranslator and coeditor of A Little Book on the Christian Life by John Calvin.
