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To: count-your-change
In the sense that He continues to be the Second Person of the Trinity FROM THE INSTANT He was Incarnate in the womb of the Virgin Mary, who became His Mother at that very instant.

Mary did not pre-exist the Second Person of the Trinity. She is, after all, a creature and had a beginning in time, like all creatures. But she BECAME HIS MOTHER when HE BECAME INCARNATE in her womb. He is ONE PERSON, but now also with a human nature. He is not two persons, however. The two natures are united in one Divine Person from the moment of the Incarnation onward.

Nestorianism is a denial of this truth.

1,375 posted on 12/21/2010 12:35:34 AM PST by Deo volente (God willing, America will survive this Obamination.)
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To: Deo volente; count-your-change
Nestorianism

You keep repeating that charge which just reveals you do not understand the term.

Christ is not "two persons."

And Mary is not the "Mother of God," a "Co-Redeemer," a Mediator" nor "Queen of Heaven."

1,378 posted on 12/21/2010 12:40:40 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Deo volente; BenKenobi

I think I grasp what you’re saying. Mary did not give birth to the divine nature, only to the human nature, the two being united at conception (and I assume it follows disunited at the death of the human nature) so that there was one nature, then two natures and finally one nature again but one person throughout.

So was it the PERSON (with two natures) of Jesus that died or just the human nature that died? If it was the latter, what was resurrected? If the former then was BenKenobi correct when he said:

“Yes, God died on the Cross and resurrected on the third day.” (Sun Dec 19 2010 12:33:56 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time) · 886 of 1,416
BenKenobi to count-your-change)


1,417 posted on 12/21/2010 2:51:56 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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