And who do you say Christ is?

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Hello,

When the question is asked to you, how do you respond?
 
To put it simply:

He’s God, 2nd person of the Trinity, who became man to save our a**** .
 
He is 100% man and 100% God, the second person of the Trinity. Because he is only one person, he has only one will. (He had conflicting emotions, but emotions are separate from the will. His will was united perfectly to that of the Father and the Holy Spirit.)
 
jmcrae said:
He is 100% man and 100% God, the second person of the Trinity. Because he is only one person, he has only one will. (He had conflicting emotions, but emotions are separate from the will. His will was united perfectly to that of the Father and the Holy Spirit.)
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If he had conflicting emotions, it is dued to his human nature. He is a divine person w/ a human nature. This is an important distinction.
 
cathgal said:
He is a divine person w/ a human nature. This is an important distinction.
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Yes - I believe that this is called the hypostatic union: fully human, and fully divine.

Christ is the Word made Flesh.
 
But it’s important that we not imply that He is God with humanity just kind of tacked on.

We talk about God taking on human flesh and tabernacling among us and so on but what we mean is that in Christ we have not just a man and not just God but Someone Who is fully and inseparably both.
 
The Catholic Encyclopedia Article that Steadfast linked to:
The Catholic doctrine is simple, at all events in its main lines. The faculty of willing is an integral part of human nature: therefore, our Lord had a human will, since He took a perfect human nature. His Divine will on the other hand is numerically one with that of the Father and the Holy Ghost. It is therefore necessary to acknowledge two wills in Christ.
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Thanks! I was wondering about this aspect of the question.
 
Well I messed up on the poll. I only voted on the first one without knowing that I could not go back and vote on the the others. :o

So… I vote that He is 100% God, 100%man, with one will. 👍

Annnyyywaaayyy… Sorry for the mess up.
 
cathgal said:
If he had conflicting emotions, it is dued to his human nature. He is a divine person w/ a human nature. This is an important distinction.
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This doesn’t fit with the Council of Chalcedon. He is not just a divine person. He is that, but he is also a human being. And he has a divine nature. If you are going to make a distinction, you have to include the whole and not just describe one aspect of his personage or nature or you have been indistinct in saying who Christ is.
 
He is the Son of God who gave His life for mine so I can spend eternitywith Him:D

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Grace_Seeker said:
This doesn’t fit with the Council of Chalcedon. He is not just a divine person. He is that, but he is also a human being. And he has a divine nature. If you are going to make a distinction, you have to include the whole and not just describe one aspect of his personage or nature or you have been indistinct in saying who Christ is.
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That is incorrect. He is a divine person, not a human person like us. We are human beings who can never be divine beings. Person is not the same as nature. Christ is not 2 persons. He is one person who has a human nature. So the question is, is He God or human?
 
cathgal said:
That is incorrect. He is a divine person, not a human person like us. We are human beings who can never be divine beings. Person is not the same as nature. Christ is not 2 persons. He is one person who has a human nature. So the question is, is He God or human?
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He is both God and man.
 
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