The ongoing controversies surrounding Andy Stanley and the recent Unconditional Conference held at North Point Church need to be addressed as it was a clear departure from the scriptural teachings found in the Bible.

Jesus (who has an eternally divine nature) was begotten in a humanly finite and limited nature, which was and forever will be perfectly displayed in His resurrected body. Essentially, despite the various opposing objections that attempt to criticize or disprove Jesus Christ, the evidence overwhelming points to the Jesus of the Bible to be the pure and unadulterated God of the heavens and the earth.

There are four notable facts of the hypostatic union: (1) Christ has two distinct natures: humanity and deity; (2) there is no mixture or intermingling of the two natures; (3) He will forever be the Second Person of the Godhead with two natures perfectly expressed in His eternal being; and (4) both natures are necessary for redemption because as man, Jesus acts as our perfect sacrifice, and yet as God, His Melchizedekan priesthood establishes Him as mediator over all creation.

There are many early heretical movements that had different views about the natures of Jesus. The idea that Jesus Christ is both God and man (a one-person union) has certainly puzzled many scholars through the centuries, and as a result, caused much confusion over its implications in the Bible.

One of the most detailed accounts of Jesus’s humanity is recorded in Luke 2:52, “And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.”

The Bible teaches that Christ is of “heavenly origin” (John 3:13, 31), existing eternally in splendor and majesty before His earthly birth.