The Second London Baptist Confession of Faith Paragraph 8.2

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The Son of God, the second person in the Holy Trinity, being very and eternal God, the brightness of the Father's glory, of one substance and equal with Him who made the world, who upholds and governs all things He has made, did, when the fullness of time was complete, take upon Him man's nature, with all the essential properties and common infirmities of it,⁠¹⁠ yet without sin;⁠²⁠ being conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary, the Holy Spirit coming down upon her: and the power of the Most High overshadowing her; and so was made of a woman of the tribe of Judah, of the seed of Abraham and David according to the Scriptures;⁠³⁠ so that two whole, perfect, and distinct natures were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition, or confusion; which person is very God and very man, yet one Christ, the only mediator between God and man.⁠⁴⁠

expand_more [1] John 1:14; Galatians 4; 4

expand_more [2] Romans 8:3; Hebrews 2:14, 16–17; 4:15

expand_more [3] Matthew 1:22–23

expand_more [4] Luke 1:27, 31, 35; Romans 9:5; 1 Timothy 2:5

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Jesus is:

Very God and very man

Part God and part man

God made into the form of man

Only man

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