Question 20 of 82
What Man Ought to Believe Concerning God
Who is the Redeemer of God's elect?
Answer
The only Redeemer of God's elect is the Lord Jesus Christ (), who, being the eternal Son of God, became man (), and so was, and continues to be, God and man in two distinct natures and one person forever (; ).
Read the 4 proof texts (KJV)
- 1 Timothy 2:5
- For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
- John 1:14
- And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
- 1 Timothy 3:16
- And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
- Colossians 2:9
- For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.