Board index ‹ Specific Bible verses, texts, and passages ‹ 1 Timothy

[Kimono]

“For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time,”

[jimwalton]

Paul is not claiming Jesus is merely a man. Paul is acknowledging that it was while Jesus was a man that he gave Himself as a ransom, mediating the sins of humanity (Heb. 8.6; 9.14-15; 12.24). Jesus became a man (Phil. 2.7) to take the role of the second Adam (Rom. 5.15-17). As a descendant of Abraham and then King David, He lived His life as one of us (Heb. 4.15). Paul is speaking of the significance of the incarnation.