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Deity and humanity are natures that belong to Jesus. Natures are not someone you can name. A dog has a canine nature, but that nature is not named as such. Rover HAS a nature but NOT IS a nature. Nature is ESSENTIAL QUALITY. And nobody IS an essential quality so as to demand we name the nature by someone's name.
Since there are many dogs in the world, and each one has a canine nature, you cannot say that a canine nature is a specific dog. That is the same mistake as saying deity is Jesus, rather than correctly saying Jesus HAS deity. Although there is only ONE who has a divine nature, the idea still plays through in saying Jesus is not deity but HAS deity. Deity is what makes Him God. But deity is not God, nor is it Father or Son.
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