Section 6
and excellent. He is the complete God, He has the true divine nature, and He has the excellent divine attributes.
The Man-Savior's divine nature and excellent divine attributes empower and ensure His abil ity to save man. In His humanity there is the capacity to save us, the capacity for salvation. But this capacity is empowered and ensured by His divinity. His ability to save us is guaranteed by His divinity.
First John 1:7 conveys the thought that the divinity of Christ empowers and ensures the saving capacity within His humanity. This verse says, "The blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin." Here the name "Jesus" denotes the Lord's humanity, which is needed for the shed ding of the redeeming blood, and the title "His Son" denotes the Lord's divinity, which is needed for the eternal efficacy of the redeeming blood. Thus, "the blood of Jesus His Son" indicates that this blood is the proper blood of a genuine man for redeeming God's fallen creatures with divine surety for its eternal efficacy, an efficacy that is all-prevailing in space and everlasting in time.
THE GOD-MAN
As a genuine man and the complete God, the