Was Christ: Human or God - two or one natures?
Jesus' description of himself "I am the Good Shepherd" (from the Gospel of John, chapter 10, verse 11). Wikipedia ) The New Testament—both the Gospels and Paul’s letters—clearly states that Jesus Christ is both divine and human. Soon the early Church would be drawn into a fierce and profound debate about the nature of Christ ’s personhood. Near the end of the first century the Docetists, who (as did the Greeks) identified sin with corporeality, taught that Christ only apparently assumed the human body. They further held that Christ’s earthly life, including his suffering and death, was almost an illusion. The Ebionites, on the other hand, denied Christ’s divinity, claiming instead that Jesus was merely a human being who was invested with divine power at his baptism (Matt. 3:16–17). Thus, the early Church was faced with two opposing viewpoints which it was responsible to address. The debate intensified when Arius, a presbyter of Alexandria (fourth century A.D.),