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God-Man or Just as a Man? Absorb this:
The apostle John writes: “So the Word became flesh and resided among us.” (John 1:14,) When the Word “became flesh” he was no longer a spirit creature. Indeed, he had to be a man in the real sense to fulfill this scripture: “We behold Jesus, who has been made a little lower than angels, crowned with glory and honor.” If Jesus had been a God-Man, he could not have been really “lower than angels.” Nor is it reasonable to think that the great Sovereign of the universe, of whom it is written that “at no time has anyone beheld God,” would take up human form and be “lower than angels.”—Heb. 2:9; 1*John 4:12.

Agree- disagree- or what?
 
When Jesus took upon him the form of a servant, he was made in the likeness of man (Philippians 2:7-8) This mean to say he really remove his power as God and lived as natural man. The miracles done by him were really the works of the Holy Spirit. Therefore he was made a little lower than angels.
Jesus had to depend fully to his Father. (Philippians 2:5-11)
 
Disagree...John 1:4 And the Word became flesh ( refers to the Incarnation, "God becoming man"), and dwelt among us (refers to Jesus, although perfect, not holding Himself aloft from all others, but rather lived as men even a peasant), (and as we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) speaks of His Deity, although hidden from the eyes of the merely curious; while Christ laid aside the expression of His Deity, He never lost the possession of His Deity) full of Grace and Truth ( as "flesh" proclaimed His Humility, "Grace and Truth" His Deity). Heb 2:9 Who was made a little lower than the Angels ( speaks of the Incarnation as well) for the suffering of death (unequivocally proclaims the fact that Jesus came to this world for one specific purpose--to die upon a cross, which was planned before the foundation of the world[ 1Pet 1:18-20], crowned with glory and honour (the mission was accomplished, and now Christ is exalted) 1 Jn 4:12 No man has seen God at any time (The idea is that no one has ever seen Deity in all its essence)
 
I actually believe he is a mythological figure.

First mention of Jesus in history was decades after his alleged life & death, and was basically hearsay. There are no first or secondary sources when it comes to Jesus, and he doesn't even fit the Jewish messianic prophecies.

If he did exist he was probably just some rabble-rouser that legends grew up around.

As for the quote, I believe the Bible is a book of mythology. It is written by people who believed in Jesus... not unlike the way the Greeks wrote about Zeus.
 
You are referring to the great mystery of the hypostatic union. Jesus is BOTH God and man with two such natures. God the Son, as the second Person of the Trinity and in time, assumed human flesh in the form of Jesus. God the Son did not lose His Divinity by assuming human nature; while at the same time, did not totally absorb His real human nature to the point of making it meaningless either. The human nature of Jesus is subject to His Divine Nature (God) and does not possess unlimited knowledge. Thus His human nature is "lower than angels".
 
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