Bible Verses

Luke 1:31  And behold, you will conceive in your womb and
bear a son, and you shall call His name Jesus.  (35)  And the
angel answered and said to her, The Holy Spirit will come
upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you;
therefore also the holy thing which is born will be called
the Son of God.

Words of Ministry

The Lord’s two essences were not merely added together;
rather, in the conception of the Man-Savior the divine
essence and the human essence were mingled. Some who
misunderstood this mingling said that it caused a third
nature to be produced, something which is neither divine nor
human. To say that with respect to the Lord Jesus…is
heretical. However, we wish to make it clear that this is not
our understanding of the word “mingle.” We agree with the
first definition of this word given in Webster’s Unabridged
Dictionary: mingle–“to combine or join (one thing with
another, or two or more things together), especially so that
the original elements are distinguishable in the
combination.” According to this definition, when two or more
things are mingled together, their original natures are not
lost but remain distinguishable.

We may use tea as an illustration of mingling. When tea is
mingled with water to make a beverage, neither the essence of
tea nor the essence of water is lost. Instead, both essences
remain…they do not produce a third nature, something which
is neither tea nor water. Our Savior was conceived of the
divine essence and born of the human essence. Therefore, He
is a Person with two essences–the divine and the human–mingled
together without a third nature being produced.
Although the Lord has two essences, He is still a single
complete Person, One who is both God and man.