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To: jo kus; Kolokotronis

I've noticed that you asked a couple of times about the Incarnation vis a vis uncreated energies. I'm not sure what exactly you are asking.

At the Incarnation, God the Son became man as well, taking on human flesh and our human nature. In this hypostatic union, both natures were uniquely enhypostasized into a single hypostasis/person. Christ's human nature is, by definition, created, since he took it on from a created being -- his mother. Our hymnology is filled with wonder that the Creator became a creature. God the Son is not created (as in Arianism), nor is there a separate created human hypostasis (as in Nestorianism). All that pertains to his Divine nature is uncreated and is of one essence with the Father and the Spirit.

Energies are similar to the Western concept of attributes -- except that they are active, dynamic and living, and not static and descriptive objects of contemplation.

When we receive, for instance, the grace of the Holy Mysteries, this is participation directly in the life of God's uncreated energies. If they were created, gnostic-like emanations and what=not, then they would not be Divine. They would be from God, but not *of* God.


7,224 posted on 05/26/2006 5:54:56 AM PDT by Agrarian
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To: Agrarian
I've noticed that you asked a couple of times about the Incarnation vis a vis uncreated energies. I'm not sure what exactly you are asking.

According to your explanations of "uncreated energies" and the related doctrine, man cannot contact God's essence directly. He must do so through this "uncreated energy". Thus, is Jesus Christ, the Incarnation who comes to our hearts - is HE an uncreated energy - NOT GOD HIMSELF - OR is He God Himself AND a man (the Mediator), in other words, man DOES contact God's self (which throws the doctrine upside down)?

Or am I still misunderstanding the distinction between "uncreated energy" and God?

Regards

7,228 posted on 05/26/2006 6:53:01 AM PDT by jo kus (Can faith [without works] SAVE him?" NO! James 2:14)
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