Christs Two natures are what?

The Two Natures of Jesus Christ.

If a Oneness Pentecostal should ever tell you that he or she believes that the Son of God possesses two natures of deity and humanity, then a good question to ask them would be; what are these two natures called?


A) Are they called the Father and the Son?

B) Are they called the Son and the Son?

C) Are they called the Father and the Father?


Now if they should reply (A) then ask them how can one the nature of the Son be really called the Father, as that would make the Son’s deity; God the Father, a position which is extremely common in Oneness but which the better educated Oneness pastors are always loathed to admit to a Trinitarian? Also if the humanity of Christ is called the Son, then that would mean that the Son isn’t Yahweh God at all, but is just God’s flesh which the deity or Father part of Jesus is said to indwell in Oneness theology, which commonly refers to this as; ‘the Almighty God in Christ.’

If they should reply (B) then we could point out that if this were true, then as deity; that would make the Son (in his deity) an eternal Son, which is contrary to every form of Oneness theology. Position (B) is the Trinitarian position which refers to each of Christ’s two natures as the Son, Christ being; ‘the Son of the Father’ (2nd John 3) and not God the Father himself, the genitive ‘of’ implying an obvious and clear distinction between God the Father and the Son. For it’s not possible to be the Son of yourself.

If they should reply (C) then this would be the most idiotic position of all, for that would mean that the Son isn’t the Son in either of his two natures of deity and humanity but is really God the Father in both of them!



(Note this post was written today, the 11th May from scratch. I wrote it at home after going onto this forum in the morning). Due to exams, I might not be able to reply for a week or so.