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To: SoothingDave
Is there more than one human nature?

I'll say no.

OK, so there is only one human nature. Which was united with the divine nature in the person of Jesus. We all also share in this one human nature. Which was united with the divine nature in the person of Jesus. So our human nature is united with the divine nature. If Jesus was fully God and fully man, partaking of a divine united with a human nature, then we are also fully man and fully God, partaking of a human nature united with a divine nature.

Pantheistic multiple-ego solipsism.

Thou art God.

Grok?

1,749 posted on 07/11/2003 10:56:50 AM PDT by malakhi
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To: malakhi
OK, so there is only one human nature. Which was united with the divine nature in the person of Jesus. We all also share in this one human nature. Which was united with the divine nature in the person of Jesus. So our human nature is united with the divine nature. If Jesus was fully God and fully man, partaking of a divine united with a human nature, then we are also fully man and fully God, partaking of a human nature united with a divine nature.

Oh dear. I was afraid you might do something like that.

I am not you, and neither one of us is Steven. There is a shared human nature we have, but we are not the same being.

With God, there is both unity of nature and unity of being.

So your above falls apart as soon as you take our sharing a human nature to mean that we are the same being.

You are correct, however, in understanding that if we do unite our own personal nature to that of Jesus that we do become united with the divinity. Jesus did come to allow us all to raise our human nature up so that we may participate in the divine life. So, yes, what you say is true, but not automatically by being human. It is by being human and attached to Christ.

SD

SD

1,753 posted on 07/11/2003 11:10:25 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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