Having exalted Christ, the writer now turns to the humanity of Christ. Most errors boil down to either saying that while Christ is God, He was not fully human, or that while Christ was fully human, he was not God. Either of these is a perversion of the truth. Christ is both fully human and fully God.
First we come to Psalm 8, which speaks of man and his position. Man was made lower than the angels, yet is crowned with glory and honour, and everything will be put under his feet. False views of Christ also arise from a false view of man. We are the pinnacle of God’s creation. Man forgot this when he sinned, and people often desert God out of despair. We need to remember the goal that God has for us.
It is also significant that Psalm 8 uses the term son of man, for this is the somewhat ambiguous term that Christ used to refer to Himself. He did this deliberately, because anything else would have led people to day He was just a man, or that He was not really human.
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