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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?
First, I will answer the question as posed in the title. The Ascension does not make a difference. Jesus ascended bodily into Heaven, and therefore His humanity also ascended.
Second, as the Father ...
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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?
It's a common misapprehension that Trinitarians do not believe the Jesus was a man. However they do believe that. The core of Trinitarian belief is that Jesus is both Man and God.
Also God the Son ...
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What is the biblical basis for Jesus having two natures?
The two natures of Jesus Christ is a fairly natural conclusion when we consider what the New Testament says about him.
Firstly, it's clear that Jesus has a human nature: he has a physical body, he ...
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Logical problem in Christology (from a Mormon)
The early Church debated this question in-depth over the course of a few centuries. What it means for Christ to be fully human and fully Divine is well-defined by the Church. This means that He is a ...
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Does the Chalcedonian Definition mean Christ has two minds?
These are deep questions that are difficult to answer, but I'll give it a shot. Most of what I'm going to say is derived from Oliver D. Crisp's book Divinity and Humanity.
How far is this model to be ...
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According to the Catholic Church, did Jesus have faith or hope?
1. Jesus enjoyed the Beatific Vision from his conception.
From the moment of his conception Jesus enjoyed the Beatific Vision, i.e. his human soul saw the divine essence with an intuitive vision and ...
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Old Testament Evidence of the Hypostatic Union
In the Old Testament God does take physical forms however the incarnation of the Messiah is unique. Hypostatic union means human and divine natures united in one person. It would be misleading to say ...
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How can the Son not know what the Father knows?
The answer to this question hinges on how trinitarians understand the incarnation of Christ. And while there is broad (though not quite universal) agreement with the Chalcedonian Definition (451), ...
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Historical Apologetic used by 7th Century Christians towards Early Muslims Regarding the Hypostatic Union and Jesus' Title "Son of God"
James White discusses this in What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Qur'an. Here is the relevant quote with some emphasis added:
One early source, the Tanwīr al-Miqbās min Tafsīr Ibn ’...
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What is the biblical basis for the doctrine of Hypostatic Union?
The biblical basis for Jesus Christ being spoken of as both fully God and fully man is found in the following biblical texts, of which this is just a small sample. If you want the full biblical basis, ...
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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?
The answer is simple! As I've stated hundreds of times the Father has no separate manifestation from the Son. The Son is the only manifestation and REVELATION of the Father SO HE GAVE IT TO JESUS.
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Does the Catholic Church teach that Jesus' Human Nature was created?
I think this answer is needed to avoid confusions.
The short answer to the title is “yes”: Christ’s human nature is created. (Indeed, it could not be otherwise: the only nature that could possibly be ...
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If the second person of the triune god bears witness of himself, why is it not true?
First, lets look at the setting of the entire passage. Jesus was talking to Jewish leaders, and they were accusing him for his claims of equality with God (John 5: 17- 23). This verse has to be looked ...
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Did Jesus definitely say he was a man?
Yes, Jesus said he was a man (John 8:40). Jesus is referred to as the “Son of Man” 88 times in the New Testament. God called the prophet Ezekiel “son of man” 93 times. God was simply calling Ezekiel ...
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What is the biblical basis for Jesus having two natures?
The writer to the Hebrews clearly declares the humanity of Christ for ‘in all things, it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren’, Heb 2:7, there being nothing of humanity to which he was a ...
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Which verses of the NT explicitly state that Jesus was born with a human mind in a human body?
It can be shown that Jesus Christ was (and is) in possession of a human soul (1).
The apostle says that 'we have the mind of Christ', 1 Corinthians 2:16, indicating that the mind of Christ (as a ...
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Is the Hypostatic Union a contradiction?
Is it contradictory to claim that Christ was both fully man and fully God at the same time?
No, because Jesus being God could operate under both natures at the same time.
The easiest way to understand ...
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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?
The trinitarian understanding hinges, in part, on what is meant by morphe in Philippians 2:
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no ...
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Jesus' Soul and Spirit?
1. The Soul of Christ
Of Christ it was prophesied 'thou shalt not leave my soul in hades', Psalm 16:10, which is quoted in relation to Jesus by Peter in Acts 2:27. The soul of Jesus was not left in ...
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What is the biblical basis for the doctrine of Hypostatic Union?
In addition to the excellent catalogue produced by @Anne , I would add one striking example of the union of Deity and humanity in the Person of Jesus Christ which is expressed in scripture, being the ...
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Can we say that all those who the Father draws are those who Jesus draws unto himself by his death?
Various verses in John's gospel show that the key point is that - first - the Father has given certain ones to Christ. And Jesus said that all whom the Father had given him would be saved. None would ...
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According to the Catholic Church, did Jesus have faith or hope?
I think I am correct in stating that the Roman Catholic Church, as well as the Eastern Orthodox Church, hold to the belief that Christ was both truly God and truly man (I am a convert from the former ...
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According to Jehovah’s Witnesses, in what way is Jesus human?
The Jehovah’s Witness religion teaches that there was a time when God was utterly alone and decided to create, as his first creation, a being known in the Bible both as the Word of God, and Michael ...
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Did Jesus definitely say he was a man?
As Dr McGowan points out Jesus is frequently referred to as a man, and it is an important part of most Christian doctrine. During His time on Earth it is unlikely that anyone ever doubted that He was ...
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What is the right word, Jesus assumed a human soul or have a created rational soul?
Is Jesus human soul created or assumed?
Jesus, at the Incarnation, assumed a human soul:[1]
Because "human nature was assumed, not absorbed",97 in the mysterious union of the Incarnation, the ...
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What is the biblical basis for Jesus having two natures?
Not wishing to reinvent the wheel, I would point to two answers that soundly answer your questions. Curiousdannii flagged up some deviations from 1st century biblical Christianity that got going, ...
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Does eternal functional subordination replace the two natures theory?
To my mind, the two issues are orthogonal.
The questions of the relationship between the Father and Son and whether or not the Son is eternally generated, whether the Father has authority over the Son,...
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Does eternal functional subordination replace the two natures theory?
Yesterday, when I again read in the Chalcedonian Creed that the Son is homoousios (of the same substance) as God AND homoousios (of the same substance) as man, I realized what the answer to my ...
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