OC | Question 16-18

16. Why must he be truly human and truly righteous?

God’s justice demands that human nature, which has sinned, must pay for its sin;43 but a sinner could never pay for others.44

^ 43. Rom. 5:12, 15; 1 Cor. 15:21; Heb. 2:14-16
^ 44. Heb. 7:26-27; 1 Pet. 3:18

17. Why must he also be true God?

So that, by the power of his divinity, he might bear the weight of God’s anger in his humanity and earn for us and restore to us righteousness and life.45

^ 45. Isa. 53; John 3:16; 2 Cor. 5:21

18. And who is this mediator–true God and at the same time truly

Our Lord Jesus Christ,46 who was given us to set us completely free and to make us right with God.47

^ 46. Matt. 1:21-23; Luke 2:11; 1 Tim. 2:5
^ 47. 1 Cor. 1:3016.