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To: al_c

Ok, what’s a Nestorian?


350 posted on 04/03/2008 12:58:41 PM PDT by irishtenor (Check out my blog at http://boompa53.blogspot.com/)
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To: irishtenor

Followers of Nestorius. He was patriarch of Constantinople and was condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and human natures were not merged into one in Christ, therefore believing that it was improper to call Mary the mother of God.


353 posted on 04/03/2008 1:03:55 PM PDT by al_c (Avoid the consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity)
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To: irishtenor
Wikipedia (hahahaha) has a nice article on Nestorianism

Much debate in the early Church centered on the question of exactly who and what Jesus was and is. God? Man? Both? Eternal? Created? Less than the Father? Equal to the Father? etc. One thread of belief was that Jesus was in fact two persons: a Divine Person and a human person, somehow inhabiting the same body. The Nestorians were scandalized by the thought that God could "die". The Church replied that no, Jesus is in fact One Person, eternally equal to the Father and having the Divine Nature, and who in time took on human nature. Thus, God did in fact die, and His sacrifice is perfect.

354 posted on 04/03/2008 1:07:17 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: irishtenor

It’s a genus of birds. They build these structures in trees and then lay eggs in them.


356 posted on 04/03/2008 1:11:58 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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