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To: Forest Keeper; kosta50; xzins
Since divine Christ was never born, I associate the birth with His human side.

Christ is, AT ALL TIMES, fully Human and fully Divine. God's Plan decreed that He be born of a Virgin, He did not NEED to do this, He CHOSE to do this. He could have descended from Heaven as a grown man or any other form He desired. You seem to be trying to present this crazy idea that there are two distinct parts of His Nature and that they operate seperately of each other. This heretical thinking has been discounted by the Church numerous times and to the best of my knowledge has never been accepted by Protestants either.

1,599 posted on 12/16/2006 6:59:53 AM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: wagglebee; kosta50; xzins; adiaireton8
Christ is, AT ALL TIMES, fully Human and fully Divine. God's Plan decreed that He be born of a Virgin, He did not NEED to do this, He CHOSE to do this. He could have descended from Heaven as a grown man or any other form He desired.

All true, and I fully agree.

You seem to be trying to present this crazy idea that there are two distinct parts of His Nature and that they operate separately of each other.

Well, instead of seeing it as different parts of one nature, I believe Christ had two natures, one human and one divine. I was under the impression that all of us believe this. Do you not?

Our Christ is a unified Christ, AND, we can see different emphases in one nature or the other in some of the actions He took. For example, when He literally forgave sin, the emphasis was on His divine nature. However, when He prayed generally, or when He specifically asked for the cup to be taken away, that was more an emphasis on His human nature.

2,081 posted on 12/19/2006 4:14:24 AM PST by Forest Keeper
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