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To: P-Marlowe; kosta50
You seem to be taking issue with the claim that Christ assumed flesh, because you think that the sense of the term 'assume' is not as ontologically unitive as "became". But 'assume' in its broader sense simply means 'take on' or 'put on'. Christ did take on human nature. He did put on flesh, not just as an extrinsic accident, but in a hypostatic union, unlike the theophanies of old. By way of the hypostatic union, He actually became man and thus flesh and blood. So I think that you are taking the word 'assume' in a much weaker ontological sense than is intended by kosta and myself, and hence you are inferring docetism where there is none.

-A8

3,074 posted on 12/29/2006 7:49:45 AM PST by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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To: adiaireton8; kosta50; Forest Keeper; Blogger; HarleyD; Dr. Eckleburg; wmfights; Kolokotronis; ...
You seem to be taking issue with the claim that Christ assumed flesh...

Indeed I do.

as·sumed (-smd)

adj.
1. Taken up or used so as to deceive; pretended: an assumed name.
2. Taken for granted; supposed: an assumed increase in population.

Abandon ship!

3,077 posted on 12/29/2006 8:02:55 AM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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