I hope the following helps clear up what I think brother George was trying to say. With respect to his deity, the Lord Jesus is the eternal Word, the changeless Word who was with God and who was God (John 1:1). As the eternal Word, from eternity past through eternity future he is always perfect, he cannot be "improved," he cannot change. He declares in Malachi 3:6, "I am Yahweh; I change not." On the other hand, with respect to his humanity, he grew in wisdom and stature and he learned obedience through suffering - he changed. I am sure George would agree there was a point in time when the Word became flesh. I think he was commenting on the fact that in the mind of God from eternity past, the Lord Jesus Christ has always been the "Lamb slain from the foundation of the world" (Rev. 13, verse eight). In the mind of God, his manhood and also his crucifixion as a man were decreed from eternity past. In the mind of Him who inhabits eternity, these facts were always present. So in that respect the Lord Jesus has always been the Son of Man.
These things are hard to be uttered. On the one hand, we see scriptures that reveal the Lord Jesus Christ as God. He is the eternal "I AM," the all-powerful God who upholds all things by the word of his power, who commands wind and waves, the all-knowing One who searches our innermost thoughts, the omnipresent Emmanuel (God with us), and he is the immutable God - Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today, and forever.
On the other hand, scripture shows us Jesus the man, being conceived, being born, growing in wisdom and stature, learning obedience by things that he suffered, thirsting, hungering, sleeping, being crucified in weakness, being forsaken as he bears our sins in his own body on the cross, dying, being buried, and rising to life. The difficulty is in seeing the Lord Jesus both as God and man at the same time. The suckling Babe is the Christ who is holding all things together, including his mother from whom he is receiving nourishment. The Babe who could not walk or talk at the same time is the Christ who walks upon the wings of the wind, who makes the clouds his chariots, who speaks, "Let there be light," and it is so. The Fountain of Living Waters cries upon the cross, "I thirst." The ever-living one who has life in himself (Jn. 5:26), at one time was dead and buried in a tomb.
Now let us ask ourselves some technical questions. Is the Lord Jesus God? Yes. Did Jesus die on the cross? Yes. Then, did God die on the cross? No, Jesus as a man died on the cross. As the eternal Son, he is forever in the bosom of the Father.
Again, does God know all things? Yes, "Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world" (Ac 15:18). "He tells the number of the stars; he calls them all by name. Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite" (Ps. 147:4-5). "There is nothing new under the sun" (Ec. 1:9). Did the Lord Jesus increase in wisdom? Yes, Luke 2:52 says so. So, did God increase in wisdom, knowledge, or experience? No, as a man the Lord Jesus increased in knowledge. But, he did not add any knowledge to God. From eternity past God has already known what it feels like to be a limited human being, or, for that matter, to be an ant. But now in time there is a Man to whom we can go who is "touched with all the feeling of our infirmities, yet without sin" (Heb. 4:15). This Man is also God, so he able to deliver from the "guttermost" of defilement to the uttermost of glory, all those who come to God by him (see Heb. 7:25).
There are things about God that truly only He himself can fully understand. The Lord Jesus Christ said, "All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him" (Mt. 11:27). This verse is the context of his famous words in verse 28: "Come unto me, all ye who are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Only the Father sees at the same time both the fullness of the deity of the Lord Jesus and his sinless humanity. It is too much for our finite minds to comprehend, but as we go to the Son we shall find rest for our souls.
