HOW CAN CHRIST BE A MAN?

     Regarding this question, let us begin with the declaration of Christ regarding His state of being:

     "But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this." (Jn. 8:40, New King James Version)

     Christ said that He is a man. This is equivalent to saying that He is not God because God is not a man and man is not God. 

     "I will not execute the fierceness of My anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim. For I am God, and not man, The Holy One in your midst; And I will not come with terror. (Hos.11:9, Ibid.) 

     "Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because your heart is lifted up, And you say, 'I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods, In the midst of the seas,' Yet you are a man, and not a god, Though you set your heart as the heart of a god." (Ezek: 28:2, Ibid.)

     The apostles also testified that Jesus Christ is a man:

    "Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know." (Acts 2:28, Ibid.)

     "For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus." (I Tim. 2:5, Ibid.)

     What might have confused others is the truth that Christ's conception is unlike that of an ordinary human being. An ordinary human being is created by God through the sexual union of husband and wife with the collaboration of God who forms a child in the womb of his mother:

   "This is what the LORD says-your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: ..."(Is. 244:24, New International Version)

    Though Christ was formed in Mary's womb, his conception, however, was not through the natural process of procreation, which is through the sexual union of husband and wife, but through the Holy Spirit:

    "This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit." (Mt. 1:18, Ibid.)

    What was conceived on Mary's womb was a child not God, for God is neither man nor the son of man, "God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind." (Num. 23:19, Ibid.)

    The fact that Christ was conceived or was created proves that He is not God since nobody created God. He is the creator of the universe and everything in it including man (Mal. 2:10; I Cor.8:5).

     The fact that Christ was conceived in a manner different from that ordinary human beings does not prove that He is God. Adam and Eve were also created by God in unique ways. Adam was formed out of the dust of the ground (Gen. 2:7) while Eve was created out of Adam's rib (Gen. 2:21-23). But we know that Adam and Eve are not gods even though they differ from ordinary human beings in regard to the manner by which God created them. Thus, though Christ was created through the power of the Holy Spirit, He is still is man and not God.

Christ is not man?

     The Bible is full of proofs that Christ is a man. To say that He is not a Man would present numerous contradictions in the Bible. Christ Himself taught His state of being. In John 8:40, this is His testimony:

      "But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this." (New King James Version)

      Apostle Paul also proves that Christ is truly a man or truly human. He says:

     "There is only one God, and Christ Jesus is the only one who can bring us to God. Jesus was truly human, and he gave himself to rescue all of us." (I Tim. 2:5, Contemporary English Version)

     Even in the prophetic era, Prophet Isaiah spoke of Jesus state of being, he said:

    "He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him." (Is. 53:3, New King James Version)

     And now that Christ is in heaven, the Bible clearly states:

     "Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand,  Upon the son of man whom You made strong for Yourself." (Ps. 80:17, Ibid.)

      "If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. "Col. 3:1, Ibid.)

     The preacher that you watched on TV is wrong in claiming that Christ is not man. His line of argument shows his lack of knowledge and understanding concerning biblical truths. We should bear in mind that Christ was without sin not because He is not man, nor is it because He is God, but because the true God, the Father in Heaven, sanctified Christ to be without sin:

     "Do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'? (Jn. 10:36, Ibid.)

     We should avoid listening to preachers who teach the kind of Jesus that's different from the Jesus taught by the messenger of God. Instead we should believe the teachings of Christ Himself that He is a man sent by God to tell us the truth. (Jn. 8:40).