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To: kosciusko51
Oh, absolutely. It's all there in Scripture.

But the word "Incarnation" and the defined doctrine thereof, came after a lot of study and reflection of such things.

There were, after all, other opinions. One opinion was that Jesus Christ was two persons ---Jesus was one person, and the Christ another--- so that Jesus was a human person whose body was "possessed" by another person, God ("I'm your vehicle.")

And those who said Jesus had only one nature, the Divine Nature, and that his humanity was a kind of elaborate disguise. Still others said that Jesus was the first-created, not the only-begotten. And so forth.

This all sounds wacky to us now, but the proponents of these positions found their own Scriptural proof-texts, which seemed like a good idea to them at the time.

The truth of the Incarnation is rooted in the Scripture you cite. The defined doctrine of the Incarnation --- in all its details --- was articulated much later.

516 posted on 06/13/2016 7:24:57 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("In Christ we form one body, and each member belongs to all the others." Romans 12:5)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Fair enough.


520 posted on 06/13/2016 7:32:12 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Mrs. Don-o
It's all there in Scripture.

AMRN!


533 posted on 06/13/2016 7:48:36 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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