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What is your view of the Hypostatic Union?
The unlearned try to treat the Incarnation as if there really isn't a "union" of natures. They simply appeal to the humanity of Christ or the Divinity of Christ based on which one is in their "theological best interest" at the time.
I'll start by saying that God, Himself, In the Eternal Personage of the Son, was joined much in the same way the "breath" of God produced in Adam a "Living Soul" within a flesh and blood body.......Not that something was actually "produced", but rather being "joined" in the Incarnation. The preexisting, Eternal Son joined with a body of flesh and blood.
I'll expand the thought by saying that Christ was/is different than Adam in the "Living Soul" sense, In that Christ was Impeccable. That, in the Incarnation, Christ was incapable of sin by the power of His Divine, Eternal, Nature.
While I don't agree completely with this article. It is very close to what I believe
https://bible.org/seriespage/person-and-work-christ-%E2%80%94-part-vii-impeccability-christ
Shedd has defined this point of view in these words: “Again, the impeccability of Christ is proved by the relation of the two wills in his person to each other. Each nature, in order to be complete, entire, and wanting nothing, has its own will; but the finite will never antagonizes the infinite will, but obeys it invariably and perfectly. If this should for an instant cease to be the case, there would be a conflict in the self-consciousness of Jesus Christ similar to that in the self-consciousness of his apostle Paul. He too would say, ‘The good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do. It is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me?’ Rom 7:19, 20, 24. But there is no such utterance as this from the lips of the God-man: On the contrary, there is the calm inquiry of Christ: ‘Which of you convinceth me of sin?’ John 8:46; and the confident affirmation of St. John: ‘In him was no sin.’ 1 John 3:5. There is an utter absence of personal confession of sin, in any form whatever, either in the conversation or the prayers of Jesus Christ. There is no sense of indwelling sin. He could not describe his religious experience as his apostle does, and his people do: ‘The flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh,’ Gal 5:17.â€4
What do you believe?
The unlearned try to treat the Incarnation as if there really isn't a "union" of natures. They simply appeal to the humanity of Christ or the Divinity of Christ based on which one is in their "theological best interest" at the time.
I'll start by saying that God, Himself, In the Eternal Personage of the Son, was joined much in the same way the "breath" of God produced in Adam a "Living Soul" within a flesh and blood body.......Not that something was actually "produced", but rather being "joined" in the Incarnation. The preexisting, Eternal Son joined with a body of flesh and blood.
I'll expand the thought by saying that Christ was/is different than Adam in the "Living Soul" sense, In that Christ was Impeccable. That, in the Incarnation, Christ was incapable of sin by the power of His Divine, Eternal, Nature.
While I don't agree completely with this article. It is very close to what I believe
https://bible.org/seriespage/person-and-work-christ-%E2%80%94-part-vii-impeccability-christ
Shedd has defined this point of view in these words: “Again, the impeccability of Christ is proved by the relation of the two wills in his person to each other. Each nature, in order to be complete, entire, and wanting nothing, has its own will; but the finite will never antagonizes the infinite will, but obeys it invariably and perfectly. If this should for an instant cease to be the case, there would be a conflict in the self-consciousness of Jesus Christ similar to that in the self-consciousness of his apostle Paul. He too would say, ‘The good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do. It is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me?’ Rom 7:19, 20, 24. But there is no such utterance as this from the lips of the God-man: On the contrary, there is the calm inquiry of Christ: ‘Which of you convinceth me of sin?’ John 8:46; and the confident affirmation of St. John: ‘In him was no sin.’ 1 John 3:5. There is an utter absence of personal confession of sin, in any form whatever, either in the conversation or the prayers of Jesus Christ. There is no sense of indwelling sin. He could not describe his religious experience as his apostle does, and his people do: ‘The flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh,’ Gal 5:17.â€4
What do you believe?
