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To: adiaireton8; kosta50
FK: "Since divine Christ was never born, I associate the birth with His human side."

I don't see how that is not either Nestorianism or Docetism. What was born was not a "side" or a "nature" but a person, i.e. the Second Person of the Trinity.

I don't know what you both are talking about. Christ the Word was never born. Jesus the Christ was born to Mary. Both are true. How do you explain this without distinguishing the divine from the human?

2,075 posted on 12/19/2006 1:54:46 AM PST by Forest Keeper
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To: Forest Keeper; adiaireton8
Christ the Word was never born. Jesus the Christ was born to Mary

So let me get this straight: God the Word was physically in the Womb, yet something else other than Him passed through the birth canal?

2,083 posted on 12/19/2006 4:32:55 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: Forest Keeper
Christ the Word was never born. Jesus the Christ was born to Mary.

That's Nestorianism. There are not *two* Christs: "Christ the Word" and "Jesus the Christ". There is only one Christ. And that Christ is eternal and also born.

-A8

2,103 posted on 12/19/2006 6:43:31 AM PST by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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