Section 5
one person. Up to that time all the descendants of Adam had possessed only one nature; after that time there was One who possessed two na tures, the human and the divine. He was truly man, and He was truly God. That One, Jesus of Nazareth, who was both divine and human, became a source of perplexity to many people. They asked Him, "Who are You?" (John 8:25). And they asked one another, "What kind of man is this?" (Matt. 8:27). They recognized clearly that He was a man, yet because there was so much about Him that was divine, He was a problem to His contemporaries. "Immanuel"—God "mani fested in the flesh" (1 Tim. 3:16)—is the meaning of the incarnation.
But the incarnation is only one-half of the mystery. The other half is the resurrection. The incarnation is God coming into man; the resur rection is man coming into God. The incarna tion brought divine content into human life; the resurrection brought human content into divine life. After the incarnation it was possible to say, "There is a man on earth in whose life there is a divine element." But not until after the resur rection was it possible to say, "There is a God in heaven in whom there is a human element." That is the meaning of the resurrection.