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Questions / God and the Trinity

Do Christians think Jesus is part God and part man?

Church teaching

Answered on video by Bishop Robert Barron

Video: How Can Jesus be Both God and Human?, Bishop Robert Barron, published May 20, 2009. Checked 10 October 2026. Loads from YouTube (privacy-enhanced mode) only when you press play. Watch on YouTube

In short: No. Not half and half, not a blend. Jesus is fully God and fully man, both at once. CCC 464

The answer, in writing

Church teaching

The Catechism says the Incarnation “does not mean that Jesus Christ is part God and part man.” CCC 464

It isn’t a mixture either: He became truly man while remaining truly God. CCC 464

The early councils defended this against people who denied either His real humanity or His real divinity. CCC 465

Our words

Not fifty-fifty. One hundred percent God and one hundred percent man, in one Person. That’s the mystery Christians kneel before at Christmas.

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Sources on this page

How we know · 2 Catechism paragraphs
  1. Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraphs 464, 465 (official text on vatican.va).

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