Q: Is Jesus a human being?A: The Lord Jesus exists eternally as God. But Jesus also became a man. At His conception by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the virgin Mary, he became a man with a true body and a true soul.

Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a slave,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death-even death on a cross! (Philippians 2:5-8).

Since the children have flesh and blood, Christ also shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death-that is, the devil (Hebrews 2:14).

God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering (Romans 8:3).

A. W. Tozer said: “Almost everyone has wondered how God would act if He were in our place. And we may have had moments when we felt that God could not possibly understand how hard it is for us to live right in such an evil world as this. And we may have wondered how He would act and what He would do if He were to live among us for a while. To wonder thus may be natural, but it is wholly needless. We know how God would act if He were in our place-He has been in our place. It is the mystery of godliness that God was manifest in human flesh. They called His name Emmanuel, which being translated is, God with us.”

It is a mystery how Christ can have two separate and distinct natures, yet be one person. This is a mystery that is hard to understand. But this mystery is a paradox, not a contradiction. This is an important logical distinction. A contraction is to say something is true and not true (A and not A). A contradiction is a logical impossibility. To say that “Jesus is God” and “Jesus is not God” would be a contradiction. But to say that “Jesus is God” and “Jesus is man” is not a contradiction. It is a paradox — in logic we call it a “contrary.” An example of a contrary would be: “Sam is a father and Sam is an uncle.” Can Sam be both? Yes, even though it may not be readily apparent how.

And when Christ was born, He was born sinless:

Such a high priest meets our need-one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens (Hebrews 7:26).

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are-yet was without sin (Hebrews 4:15).

Christ is God, but He is also the Second Adam — the sinless man (Romans 5:12-21). As such He is the perfect representative of both God and man, the perfect mediator, and the perfect object for divine justice and human responsibility.

Sin could only be dealt with by someone who is both God (sinless and a life of incalculable value) and man (able to substitute for us because He is identified with our human nature). This is the Jesus the Bible reveals to us and the Jesus we worship.