Questions tagged [hypostatic-union]
Questions pertaining to the nature of Jesus' humanity and divinity.
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In the hypostatic union, is Jesus just the name of the man or of the God or of both?
First things first: I am not a Trinitarian. However, I know many good people that are Trinitarians and some of them are very close to me so we'll say that I'm sympathetic to the cause. I'm sincerely ...
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How can the Son not know what the Father knows?
Matthew 24:36 (NLT)
Mark 13:32 (NLT)
36 “However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows.”
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Why is it declared that Jesus was fully God while on earth when he did not have all attributes of God?
The common belief is that Jesus was fully God and fully man; that is, 100% God and 100% man.
In John 17:5, Jesus asks the Father to return his glory as he had before he became flesh. So, his glory was ...
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Logical problem in Christology (from a Mormon)
I (a Christian) have been in several groups and see this argument poised here and there. I believe they get it from the Mormon apologist Blake Olster, but I could be mistaken. However, the problem ...
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If God is immutable, how does the hypostatic union work?
According to Trinitarian theology as held by the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, God is 3 persons/hypostasis in 1 essence/nature/substance and one attribute of God is his immutability (c.f. Summa ...
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Is Jesus God or a Human? [closed]
The Bible describes God as: God is the All-Powerful Creator of the universe.
If the God is All-Powerful
how would a human (who is the less powerful) be able to crucify the All-Powerful God (Jesus)
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For Trinitarians, why is it important to posit Jesus's human nature continued existence post ascension?
Christians belief that God exists in three persons, although being just one entity.
One of them is the Father who created the visible and the invisible world.
I understand, that the Father was just ...
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Was the divine nature of Jesus in dominance at the Garden of Gethsemane?
In Luke 22:44 we read how Jesus sweat blood during his prayer at Gethsemane. This happens when one goes through extreme stress and mental agony. Da Vinci is said to have recorded the phenomenon that ...
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Where did St. Thomas Aquinas say Mary approached the borders of the Hypostatic Union?
Where did St. Thomas Aquinas say Mary approached the borders/fringes of the divinity or Hypostatic Union?
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Can we say that all those who the Father draws are those who Jesus draws unto himself by his death?
John 6:44 (KJB):
“No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
The Bible makes it clear in John 12:32 that Jesus Christ will draw ...
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Jesus' Soul and Spirit? [closed]
What is the difference between soul and spirit?
When Jesus was made flesh he had human and divine natures. Being human, he had a human soul too. But In nature he is God. God is spirit.
Does anyone ...
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Which nature of Christ said “My Father is greater than I” (John 14:28)?
Jesus said, “My Father is greater than I” (John 14:28).
It would be a ridiculous thing for a mere human being to say this. This statement, therefore, seems to argue against a ‘mere man’ interpretation ...
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How do Trinitarians respond to passages in the Bible that seem to clearly distinguish between God and Jesus after his ascension?
Dr. Steven Nemes writes in the article The revelation which God gave Jesus, after quoting the opening line of Revelation
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his
servants what ...
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What is the biblical basis for the doctrine of Hypostatic Union?
I have heard, during my entire Christian life, that "Jesus was both fully God and fully man". What is the biblical basis for this claim, in particular the "fully man" part of this ...
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What is the biblical basis for Jesus having two natures?
A comment by Nigel:
The dual nature of Jesus Christ is such that Deity and humanity meet in one Person. The natures neither mingle, nor merge, nor 'switch'. They are two distinct things. They meet ...
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Why Jesus said that the God abandoned Him?
This is one of the most common questions of someone who starts reading the Bible. I found a lot of explanations, however, none of them is really creating a reasonable answer for why Jesus said that. ...
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How do Trinitarians explain that Jesus himself claims He is a man who has heard things from God at John 8:40?
In Acts 2:22, St. Peter says
"Fellow Israelites, listen to this! Jesus of Nazareth was a man
who had God's approval."
I have asked about this particular line here.
Similarly, Jesus himself ...
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Do Trinitarians believe Jesus has (or had) two centres of consciousness?
I recently read a pastor talking about how while Jesus was a baby in the manger, he was simultaneously keeping the entire universe running.
Yet a baby consciousness is very different, presumably, from ...
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omniscience of God the Son in Matthew 24:36 [duplicate]
How do those Christians who believe that Jesus is God and equal to God the Father explain out the following verse:
"But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in
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According to Trinitarians, can beings other than God take on other natures?
The standard Trinitarian position is that a 'person' of the Triune God 'took on' or 'added' a human nature. So once that occurs, this person has both a fully human and a fully divine nature.
This ...
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Why must the hypostatic union be viewed as taking place at Jesus' conception?
What are the reasons why Trinitarian orthodoxy holds that the Word had to make his hypostatic union with the man Jesus Christ at the point of his conception in Mary's womb rather than later at his ...
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What does the Chalcedonian Creed mean by person?
The creed says:
the distinction of natures being by no means taken away by the union,
but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and concurring
in one Person and one Subsistence, not ...
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Is the Hypostatic Union a contradiction?
The law of noncontradictions states that two contradictory positions cannot be true at the same time in the same sense (e. g. the two propositions "p is the case" and "p is not the case&...
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What's so bad about monoergism and monothelitism?
Two early heresies that intrigue me a bit are monoergism and monothelitism. Both basically suggest that while Jesus was both human and divine, he only had one "energy" or one "will." Both were ...
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Does eternal functional subordination replace the two natures theory?
It seems as if everybody accepts that the Bible represents the Son as subordinate to the Father. For example, in Gethsemane, Jesus prayed to his Father, “yet not as I will, but as You will” (Matt 26:...
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Did Jesus definitely say he was a man?
Did Jesus definitely say he was a man? From recall, He is said to be both God and man. Was it definitely not an invention of Christianity?
I'm asking because I'm not sure I believe He was omni-...
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When did Jesus assume human nature?
Did Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity, only assume impersonal (anhypostatic) human nature (body and soul), during incarnation, in which he was born of Mary? Or, did he already have human ...
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According to Chalcedonian theology, did Jesus retain his human nature after his ascension, or did he return to being only divine?
The Epistle of Diognetes, regarded by some to be the earliest example of Christian apologetics, establishes Jesus’ divine role as Creator and even goes as far as to call him God.
“As a king sends ...
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Which verses of the NT explicitly state that Jesus was born with a human mind in a human body?
We read in Phil 2: 5-7 :
Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
who, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God
as something to be exploited,
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According to Jehovah’s Witnesses, in what way is Jesus human?
From what I understand, Jehovah’s Witnesses believe in a form of Arianism that claims Jesus is “the son of God”, but he is inferior to “God the Father”, as he is usually understood as “God’s first ...
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If "God is spirit" then how can the incarnation be possible? How does Nicene theology interpret John 4:24?
Even Jesus, in John 4:24 taught:
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
yet most Christians, those who accept the Nicene Creed, teach that God became a man as he ...
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Relationships between God the Father, Mary and the two natures of Jesus Christ
Would it be okay to say this:
Jesus Christ is both God and Man, which means that He possesses both
divine and human nature. Divine nature in Him is from God the Father
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Why did Jesus submit to the authority of God while Jesus was a man?
The Bible tells us that Jesus emptied himself and set aside his heavenly glory and submitted himself to the will of his Father (God).
In order to do the will of his Father (God) who sent him, and to ...
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What is the best way to distinguish when God (the son) is talking in His human nature or in His divine?
In Mark 13:32, Yeshua says:
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
I'm going to use Ellicott's Commentary for ...
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Did the early church teach the person of God the Word changed in the incarnation?
According to early Christianity did the person of God the Word change in the incarnation? Is it considered mutability in the person that change?
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What does it mean that "the two natures of Christ cannot be separated"?
The Ausberg confession states of Christ in the Chief Articles of Faith,
Therefore, he has two natures, one divine and the other human. They are united in one person and cannot be separated.
What ...
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What is the nature of Dyothelitism according to the Council of Chalcedon?
What is the nature of Dyothelitism according to the Council of Chalcedon?
At the Council of Chalcedon, the church taught that the Incarnate Lord Jesus Christ had two natures: divine and human, united ...
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What are the major problems that Chalcedonians have with Miaphysite Christology?
The Council of Chalcedon of 451 gave a clear definition of the Hypostatic Union, the doctrine that in the incarnation, the Son of God took on a full human nature, so that in this one person are united ...
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Is voluntary passibility consistent with an essentially impassible God?
The majority of Christian theologians have held that God is 'impassible' where impassibility means God's inability to be changed/affected by creatures, particularly in reference to his emotional life. ...
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Can orthodox Trinitarians say, "God died on the cross"?
In the council of Ephesus (431 A.D.) the question of whether or not Jesus' mother Mary should be referred to as the "Mother of God" or the "Mother of Christ" was debated. On the orthodox (Mother of ...
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Does the Catholic Church teach that Jesus' Human Nature was created?
I think this is one of the reasons the we can call Mary the Mother of God. But I'm confused about the exact meaning of Human Nature and Human Soul.
So my question is mainly this. What was created ...
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Was Jesus' human nature included in the Trinity?
Since Jesus had two natures, one divine and one human, is human nature included in the Trinity, or just the divine nature? What did the early Christians and the traditions have to say about this?
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Did Jesus have a physical body before his incarnation?
According to the doctrine of the trinity the Son is eternal. Is this in reference to his divine nature only or the physical and divine? If it is both physical and divine, then did the body shrink ...
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According to the Catholic Church, did Jesus have faith or hope?
St. Paul says that faith, hope and love remain and the greatest of these is love; I've heard it reasoned that faith and hope aren't needed once you've been in the presence of God - but love alone ...
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Historical Apologetic used by 7th Century Christians towards Early Muslims Regarding the Hypostatic Union and Jesus' Title "Son of God"
According to my research Jesus is called the Son of God about 40 times in the NT. When interacting with Muslims, a common objection they give against Christ's deity, and the Trinity is that the Quran ...
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What is the right word, Jesus assumed a human soul or have a created rational soul?
Jesus has two nature fully God and fully man. We know that man is compose of body & soul. Its very hard to grasp the nature of Jesus human soul.
Is Jesus human soul created or assumed?
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According to Roman Catholic orthodoxy, is Jesus Christ a human person, a divine person, both, or none?
I'll give you an example of a divine person: God the Father.
I'll give you an example of a human person: the apostle Paul.
According to Roman Catholic orthodoxy (note: cite it), is Jesus Christ a ...
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Why do adherents to Hypostatic Union believe that God the Son (Jesus) must be fully Human?
Orthodox teaches that Jesus assumed the full human nature. Why is it necessary that he is fully human?
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How does Jesus have two wills in light of the rejection of Nestorianism? (Orthodox Trinitarian view)
Related answered questions: Chalcedonianism is a moderate between Nestorianism and Monophysitism?, What does it mean that the two natures of Christ cannot be separated?, and Does the Chalcedonian ...
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Was Jesus two separate individuals in one body?
I have always been told, and I thoroughly believe that Jesus was wholly God and wholly man.
Since there are multiple occasions in the Bible where pre-incarnate Jesus apparently appeared to people, ...
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