what i dislike about this common conflation is that you had to add the parenthesis; and i happen to disagree with the "human nature" one, on moral grounds. I may be wrong, but your explanation reads like, "You have seen Me acting natural, and also divine..."
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Originally Posted by randyabrown
And we would expect to see that because he was also a man. Two natures - both God and man. His deity is the Father (Jehovah - the only God there is) and his humanity is the Son of God. As a man he prayed; as God he answered prayer.
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i have never had a problem with Christ's deity as the Son. Also, this explanation is inadequate to explain some of Christ's replies on this subject...but honestly, it is a subject that can only cause division, i think. i have yet to see on of these threads come to any conclusions. They inevitably strike me as a group of people expecting to define God more perfectly, or see God more fully, when Christ's "if you have seen Me, you have seen the Father" may be interpreted to mean something else.
Why wouldn't Christ just say "I AM the Father?" For the very simple reason that He is not the Father, in some important sense.
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