“hypostatic union”
Christ is fully divine, and fully human.
“In the fullness of time…” Galatians 4
God, in his essence, is outside time. Time is part of creation. In and through Christ, God enters the human condition. Time is part of that human condition.
However how can this be the case when we look at God before and after creation took place? Before creation God is not keeping the creation in existence whereas after creation
Welcome to the forums AtraMors. There is not a “before” creation in a temporal sense. The beginning of time proceeds an act that is completely non-physical and is pure-actuality. Therefore the creation of the universe cannot be meaningfully understood in physical terms. God is only before the universe in a logical sense, but not in a spatial sense or in the sense of time. God has been keeping creation in existence since it’s beginning, and since there is no “before” the beginning, it is better to say that God has eternally sustained the existence of creation since it’s beginning and has never not been doing that activity. God eternally creates.
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