### 17. Q. Why must he also be true God?

**A**. So that, by the power of his divinity, he might bear in his humanity the weight of God’s wrath, and earn for us and restore to us righteousness and life.<sup>1</sup>

<sup>1</sup> [Isa. 53](/get-passage/Isaiah+53); [John 3:16](/get-passage/John+3:16); [2 Cor. 5:21](/get-passage/2+Corinthians+5:21)