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To: Mad Dawg
I can't do the issue justice

You did a marvelous job as far as my untrained eyes can see:

The Incarnation thing is about (1.a) what it was that became incarnate, and (1.b) from where, so to speak, he became incarnate, and about (2) how great was the self-emptying that Incarnation, AND (3) that the Incarnation -- the "work of Christ", His whole earthly life from conception to Ascension -- is, inter alia, revelatory. You wanna know Who God is? Look at IHS. You wanna know what omnipotence and bliss are? Look at an infant or a man being tortured to death. Like that.

+Athanasius: "For He was made man that we might be made God; and He manifested Himself by a body that we might receive the idea of the unseen Father; and He endured the insolence of men that we might inherit immortality. For while He Himself was in no way injured, being impossible and incorruptible and very Word and God, men who were suffering, and for whose sakes He endured all this, He maintained and preserved in His own impassibility."

3,407 posted on 03/01/2008 9:34:52 PM PST by Zero Sum (Liberalism: The damage ends up being a thousand times the benefit! (apologies to Rabbi Benny Lau))
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To: Zero Sum; Mad Dawg
For while He Himself was in no way injured, being impossible and incorruptible and very Word and God [St. Ahanasius]

Strange way to put it for him! As if he was denying Christ's humanity. For Christ would have not only suffered and felt corruption, but we also believe He died before He resurrected.

3,416 posted on 03/01/2008 10:33:32 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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