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To: kosta50
If you carefully review my wording I believe I said "took on" human nature....

No, this is what you said:

God the Word has no flesh, no form, nor shape, no humanity.

Your explanations which followed did nothing more than dig a deeper hole.

BTW The Word BECAME FLESH.

He didn't put on a human costume. He didn't clothe himself in a human form. He did not "assume" a human form. He BECAME FLESH.

Hence your statement is just plain wrong.

Have you ever once admitted that you were wrong about anything on this forum?

3,093 posted on 12/29/2006 9:36:55 AM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: P-Marlowe

I think in the theophanies, he put on flesh. He truly was appearing as a human being, but it wasn't a difference in nature. It was, for lack of a better word, a costume. Yet, He wrestled with Jacob and ate with Abraham. He was a human in these appearances, though His person did not change in that He was ultimately God. The Hebrew indicates that He was a man during these times, though the effect was that it was a mere temporary manifestation.

In the incarnation, He BECAME God-Man. He had a transformation of nature as the 2nd person of the trinity. When He died on the cross, that which could die died. The heart stopped beating. The lungs stopped breathing. The blood stopped flowing. The body died. The spirit didn't die (defining die as ceasing to function). It continued in Paradise. When He arose, the flesh arose. The brain started working and caused the body to function. The heart beat. The legs moved. The mouth spoke. He ate. He could be touched. His wounds could be felt. Yet, He was glorified in the flesh as well since He walked through walls. He is our example of what the glorified human body will be like. We don't know what we will be like, other than that we will be like Him. We won't be God. He never ceased being God. Yet, at the incarnation, He physically became 100% man (while retaining His status as 100% God). It wasn't a costume. It was a transformation.


3,094 posted on 12/29/2006 9:45:43 AM PST by Blogger
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No, this is what you said: God the Word has no flesh, no form, nor shape, no humanity

That is correct, P-Marlowe. I am sorry if you don't believe that, because that's the very basic Christain belief.

Word the God existed from the beginning Who, until His hypostatic union with Mary's flesh, was not material.

Flesh and human nature is used interchangably in the Scripture. Why don't you explain what it means that husband and wife become one flesh.

Have you ever once admitted that you were wrong about anything on this forum?

I have. Have you?

3,095 posted on 12/29/2006 9:47:32 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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