Section 5
expression of God. They did not see a man ex pressing man; they saw a man expressing God.
When John wrote his Gospel, he was very old, probably in his nineties. He testified that God became flesh and that they beheld His glory (John 1:14). A man was living and walking with them, and in this One they saw the glory of God.
THE MAN-SAVIOR
The Man-Savior is a genuine man with the real human nature and the perfect human vir tues. Here we use three adjectives to describe the Man-Savior in His humanity: genuine, real, and perfect. As a man, the Man-Savior is genuine. His nature is real; that is, He was a real human being, not a phantom. Furthermore, the Man- Savior's human virtues are perfect. In order to be qualified to be man's Savior, the Lord Jesus had to be a genuine man with a real human nature and the perfect human virtues.
The Man-Savior was not only a genuine man; He was also the complete God. As the complete God, He had the true divine nature and the ex cellent divine attributes. We have seen that with respect to His humanity the Man-Savior is gen uine, real, and perfect. Now we need to see that with respect to His divinity He is complete, true,