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To: Forest Keeper
Since divine Christ was never born, I associate the birth with His human side

But that's just the point: there is never a time when Chirst since the Incarnation can be associated only with His "human side." The two natures are never separate, nor mixed, althought unconfused. He is not a demigod, half-god and half human, nor is there divine "schizphrenia," or multiple personality. At no point can anything about Christ be considered "normal" or "natural" from the human point of view.

1,593 posted on 12/16/2006 5:54:30 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; adiaireton8
But that's just the point: there is never a time when Christ since the Incarnation can be associated only with His "human side."

Really??? When Jesus prayed, was He just talking to Himself? Or, when He asked for the cup to be taken away, was that an internal conflict God was having? I don't think so.

He is not a demigod, half-god and half human, nor is there divine "schizophrenia," or multiple personality.

I fully agree. I don't think I would be wise to attempt to explain the intricate mechanics of it, but I do agree.

At no point can anything about Christ be considered "normal" or "natural" from the human point of view.

But that's just labeling. For example, Jesus built things. He must have built a chair for someone. Was that a supernatural chair, or was it just a regular chair, although extremely well built? Unless you think that the chair carried with it supernatural qualities, then it was a normal or natural chair.

If you want to say that His tears were "supernatural" just because they were His, that is fine. But, if a scientist examined those tears and compared them with those of a normal person, would he see any difference? I don't think so, or else how could He have been fully human?

2,076 posted on 12/19/2006 2:31:16 AM PST by Forest Keeper
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