God the Son
The Son as Mediator
The One Mediator Between God and Men
Description
As the God-man, Jesus Christ uniquely qualifies to mediate between holy God and sinful humanity. He must be God to satisfy divine justice and represent the infinite value required for atonement. He must be man to represent humanity, bear human guilt, and die in humanity's place. In His one person, two complete natures—divine and human—are united without confusion, change, division, or separation (as Chalcedon declared). This hypostatic union enables Christ to bridge the infinite chasm between Creator and creature, bringing God to man and man to God. He is the ladder Jacob saw, connecting heaven and earth.
Key Verses
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.