Okay, easy to answer, IMO. As stated above, there are places in Scripture which speak of the human nature of THE Christ (Messiah) and there are places which speak of the divine (deity) of THE Christ, and there are those places which speak of THE Christ as a whole; GOD and man. He is confusing these texts by not properly discerning which of the 3 differences above.
My simple answer is grounded in a hermeneutical principle; The clear always interprets the less clear. So let's take two of the most clear statements about God the Son and the man Jesus who was BORN of Mary by the work of the Holy Spirit:
John 1:1-14 (ASV) 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not. 6 There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. 7 The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but [came] that he might bear witness of the light. 9 There was the true light, [even the light] which lighteth every man, coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world knew him not. 11 He came unto his own, and they that were his own received him not. 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, [even] to them that believe on his name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.
The first part of this passage clearly speaks of "the Word", GOD the Son, the second person of the Trinity.
The last part of this passage (v. 14a) clearly teaches that the "Word/Logos/GOD the Son"
BECAME flesh (the incarnation of GOD the Son=Jesus THE Christ).
Lastly, in v. 14b we have reference to how this incarnate GOD was perceived by those who saw Him.
It is incontrovertible that the incarnation; God coming to earth and taking upon Himself human flesh, aka: Jesus, was a historical event. All the prophets of the OT, by inspiration of the Spirit prophesied of this FUTURE event. Jesus was never "eternal"; GOD the Son was, is and ever shall be eternal.
Okay, next:
Philippians 2:5-11 (ASV) 5 Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; 8 and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient [even] unto death, yea, the death of the cross. 9 Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name; 10 that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven and [things] on earth and [things] under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
The first part of this passage (v. 6a) speaks of the incarnate Christ of whom we should conform ourselves. Then in v. 6b it speaks of the SON of God in eternity before the incarnation.
Then in v. 7f the passage speaks of the SON of God
becoming a humble servant being MADE in the likeness of men; the God-man Jesus the Christ.
Lastly, in v. 11 Paul speaks of the reality of the incarnation and that all mankind should confess the truth that Jesus (GOD-man) is LORD (GOD).
So again, we have a passage which is perspicuous in its teaching that in eternity, the GOD the Son entered into history by becoming a humble servant as a human man. That GOD-man did not exist before that historical event.
This truth is taught throughout the entire Scripture and is the
soul of the Christian faith; God
became man. Jesus of Nazareth was not just a prophet, a great teacher, an impeccably moral man, etc., but He was GOD in the flesh. It was not GOD who died on the Cross. It was not GOD who was raised from the dead (an aside, the Scripture says that Jesus raised Himself from the dead (Jh 2:19), the Spirit raised Jesus from the dead (Rom 8:11), and the Father raised Jesus from the dead (Eph 1:17-20)). It was the human nature of Christ who was crucified, dead and buried and raised from the dead on the third day.
The Chalcedon Creed is an immense help in stating the truth of the person of Jesus Christ and how one must be extremely careful not to either separate nor intermix the two natures. When we deal with the Trinity and the person of Jesus Christ, we are entering into one of the great 'mysteries' of God, which He has chosen to reveal, in part, to us mortals. We must walk prayerfully, slowly and with the greatest care else we could believe the Devil's lies concerning the One True God.
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