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Originally Posted by Praxeas
The two natures are not united together.
The two natures are united TO HIM.
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In my experience, only a scholar could put those two sentences together. How does the singular HIM/sponsor/person not make the two natures united together? How does a common HIM dis-unite the natures attached to the HIM?
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The scriptures are abundantly clear. Jesus is both God and man
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but to make the whole scriptural witness readable without "special glasses" you need to uncouple the two natures at various times through the NT witness. God's left hand has to be completely uninvolved with his right hand.
Hey, if that makes your Christology work, I have come way to late to change your mind.
If that makes a true witness that God has an offspring and that offspring is a Son, and that offspring was God himself, that is just crazy stuff the needs special glasses and a unigue customized english language usage manual.
Time will tell how well the "two natures sharing an ontological union" teaching point holds up. I'll check back in a year or so. My hope is that it will go the way of the wonderfully paradoxical utterance that Jesus is FULLY God and FULLY Man. Its the FULLY part that just makes me wag my head at what some us are able to digest from another man's table.
regards,
tbpew