If we want to better appreciate what this difficult term means, let’s start by correcting the English. But since Jesus refers to himself as the Son of Man more than 80 times, it’s probably important to understand what he’s talking about. I explained that history to my daughter too, in simple terms. Seems like an improvement on multiple levels.) (In contemporary English, man most often means man, or male, woman continues to mean woman, or female, and humanity means humanity. Yet we still call him “Son of Man,” a throwback to the past when “man” was understood to mean humanity. Jesus is unlike any human ever born in that his human nature is derived soley from his mother.
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