Apostolic But Not Believing Jesus is The Father?

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Sounds like two persons. One is God and the other is not, but then you contradict that by saying the Man is the Father....because the Father is inside of the man..which in itself sounds nonsensical.

Is the Son a Person? And is that Person the same one as the Father?

Is the Son just a body?

Is the Son God? Or just a man? Or just a body?

It depends on how one defines "person". Let's start where we know we agree. There is only one "divine person", that is the Father, aka God.

The human being (the man) Jesus Christ is the express image of God's own person in full humanity. Therefore, He is the perfect reflection of the Father's own person. Because of this we can say that we see the person of the Father in Him. But there is a distinction. In Christ there is a distinct human mind, a human will, human spirit. He's not just a body.

From conception, this full humanity was inseparably one with the Father. This means that there is an unexplainable and inseparable union of the divine essence with the human essence. Therefore, through this union each nature partakes in the very essence of the other. Thus, in Christ, God becomes man... and that man was born being a man... but also God.

No analogy is perfect. But I have tried to explain it by saying, imagine that we have two half full wine glasses. One has wine... the other has water. Now, let's pour them together into one glass. What is in the filled glass, wine or water? Both. God poured Himself into the zygote that became the man Jesus Christ. What therefore is this man, is He man or God? Both.