Nature of Jesus

Biblical Unitarians hold that Jesus Christ is the Son of God — a unique, fully human being brought into existence by the miraculous act of God in Mary's womb. He is not a pre-existent divine being who became flesh but a genuinely new human being whose existence began at his conception. His identity as the Son of God derives from his miraculous origin (born of a virgin by the Spirit's action) and from his unique relationship with the Father.

Jesus is understood as a human Messiah — the descendant of David promised in the Old Testament — who lived a sinless life, died on the cross as the atoning sacrifice for sin, was raised bodily from the dead by God, and was exalted to the Father's right hand. After the resurrection, Jesus was granted divine authority and a form of glorified existence; he is now the exalted Lord. Biblical Unitarians thus acknowledge the exalted status of the risen Christ while denying that he was eternally divine before his birth.

Biblical Unitarians disagree with each other on some Christological details — for example, on whether Jesus was entirely human in the same sense as all other humans or whether his Spirit-conception gave him a unique sinless nature. But they agree that Jesus was not a pre-existent divine person, that he is fully distinct from the Father, and that worshipping Jesus as God in the Trinitarian sense misidentifies who Jesus is according to the New Testament.