Saturday, September 23, 2006

More Hypostatic Union

I think I have arrived at the point of understanding how "No one"..."but the Father" is consistent with the hypostatic union. In the ears of Jesus's hearers, they were not aware of the Trinity, yet. Therefore, "no one" is working with the people's current knowledge (or lack of knowledge) about the Trinity. In addition, Son must refer to the human nature of Christ for us to have an understanding of Christ that is consistent with the rest of Scripture.

Some other intersting concepts I had never heard of before...
-Jesus Christ is the name of the God-Man. Only the divine nature existed, before the incarnation, as the Son, the second Person of the Trinity. At the incarnation - boom - the God-man Jesus Christ, the Word became flesh, put on flesh, had a complete human nature (under the curse of Adam, but without the orignal sin) while maintaining a complete divine nature. Mind bending, but what an amazing thing we celebrate at Christmas. Even if Santa were able to zip from house to house to drop off presents in one night (he could always delegate, you know), the incarnation is by far a greater miracle and is worthy of our attention and reflection.
-Christ did not lose his human nature at the assension (and thus cease to become the Christ). His human nature was and is now glorified. His human nature was and is no longer under the curse of Adam.

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