Why must the mediator also be true God?

Heidelberg Catechism

Why must the mediator also be true God?

Deliverance
Question 17
Heidelberg Catechism
Heidelberg Catechism

Heidelberg Catechism

Why must the mediator also be true God?

Deliverance
Question 17

Question

Why must the mediator also be true God?

Answer

So that the mediator, by the power of his divinity, might bear the weight of God's wrath in his humanity and earn for us and restore to us righteousness and life.1

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