Lutheranism

===Two natures of Christ===
{{Main|Scholastic Lutheran Christology}}
Lutherans believe Jesus is the [[Christ (title)|Christ]], the savior promised in the Old Testament. They believe he is both by nature God and by nature man [[Hypostatic union|in one person]], as they confess in Luther's ''[[s:Luther's Small Catechism#II. THE CREED,|Small Catechism]]'' that he is "true God begotten of the Father from eternity and also true man born of the Virgin Mary".<ref>[http://www.bookofconcord.com/smallcatechism.html#creed Luther's Small Catechism, The Apostles' Creed, Second Article] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061128133418/http://www.bookofconcord.com/smallcatechism.html#creed |date=28 November 2006 }},
{{cite book |last=Graebner |first=Augustus Lawrence |url=http://showcase.netins.net/web/bilarson/christology.txt |title=Outlines of Doctrinal Theology |pages=100ff |location=Saint Louis, MO |publisher=Concordia Publishing House |year=1910 |isbn=978-0-524-04891-7 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060712194230/http://showcase.netins.net/web/bilarson/christology.txt |archive-date=12 July 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The ''Augsburg Confession'' explains:<ref>[http://www.bookofconcord.org/augsburgconfession.php#article3 Augsburg confession, Article III] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210311215248/https://bookofconcord.org/augsburg-confession/#article3 |date=11 March 2021 }}. Retrieved 17 April 2010.</ref>
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[T]he Son of God, did assume the human nature in the womb of the [[blessed Virgin Mary]], so that there are two natures, the divine and the human, inseparably enjoined in one Person, one Christ, true God and true man, who was born of the Virgin Mary, truly suffered, was crucified, dead, and buried, that He might reconcile the Father unto us, and be a sacrifice, not only for original guilt, but also for all actual sins of men.
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