|
Re: Apostolic But Not Believing Jesus is The Fathe
If there are two persons, and both are God, then there are by definition two Gods.
Jesus was not "a man who became God". YHVH says in Isaiah there was no God before him, beside him, or after him.
There is YHVH, who at a certain point in time and space assumed a manner or mode of existence as a human being named Jesus. This man Jesus is the entirety of the divine character and person (hypostasis, substance) "engraved" as it were in human nature.
And thus the man Jesus IS IN FACT YHVH, the Supreme and Only Deity.
Analogies fail sooner or later, so we should begin with scripture's statements and CONFESS THEM AS TRUTH whether we understand "how", and then keep all our speculations and thoughts about this Mystery within the bounds of the DOGMATIC DECLARATIONS of the apostles and prophets.
Thus we will be kept from saying stuff like someone "became God". Such a statement is fraught with potential to misunderstand. Jesus became divine only in the sense his human nature was clothed with immortality and perfection. "God became man so man could become God" but ONLY in the metaphorical sense, the idea being God took on frail human nature to change it and glorify it by the divine nature, and thus redeem what Adam lost and then some.
|