Due to Gnosticism and other error that has been propagated about the deity of Jesus, this teaching clarifies the truth that Jesus as a man, was fully God and fully man. He had two natures while he was a man, the nature of God, of which he laid aside the power, rank and privilages of God; and the nature of man, so that he could totally empathize with us in our temptations, and over come them all as a man. The Bible declares this to be a great mystery: God was manifest in the flesh!