To: betty boop; Alamo-Girl; Dr. Eckleburg
God does not reduce to anything human, mortal. But it's easy to see why that concept may be difficult to grasp, on first hearing or even later. Aye, what was that line about
"Who although He be God and Man; yet He is not two, but one Christ. One; not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh: but by taking of the Manhood into God."
Athanasian Creed, or somesuch?
Cheers!
280 posted on
07/16/2009 3:29:05 PM PDT by
grey_whiskers
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To: grey_whiskers
"Equal to the Father as touching His Godhead, and inferior to the Father as touching His Manhood. Who, although He be God and Man, yet He is not two, but One Christ."
Therefore, God does not "reduce" to man in the Person of the Incarnated Son, Jesus Christ. His eternal divinity is not extinguished or diminished by His "mortalization" as true man; He is still true God, the Son being of one substance with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
284 posted on
07/16/2009 4:52:42 PM PDT by
betty boop
(Without God man neither knows which way to go, nor even understands who he is. —Pope Benedict XVI)
To: grey_whiskers
Thank you so much for sharing your insights, dear brother in Christ!
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