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Lazerlike42
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I have been searching for some answer to this question for a very long time and I haven’t been able to come up with anything.
I am just a bit confused as to how it is possible, or why one would want or need, to pray to or venerate the infant Jesus. Christ is eternally in His body. There is only one Christ, so how can one pray to the infant Jesus one moment and the “regular” Jesus the next? Further, why do we only venerate the infant Jesus when He is in fact Jesus and ought to be looked upon with the same latria as the “regular” Jesus? (I realize that we would venerate and image of the infant Jesus because it is only an image, but I am not referring to the statues or images in my question)
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I did also finally find a post in the apologists forum concerning this, but what I still don’t understand is how Jesus can appear as a child when He is eternally incarnate. Christ cannot simply change his body, can He? Would not this simply be something akin to Docetism?
I am just a bit confused as to how it is possible, or why one would want or need, to pray to or venerate the infant Jesus. Christ is eternally in His body. There is only one Christ, so how can one pray to the infant Jesus one moment and the “regular” Jesus the next? Further, why do we only venerate the infant Jesus when He is in fact Jesus and ought to be looked upon with the same latria as the “regular” Jesus? (I realize that we would venerate and image of the infant Jesus because it is only an image, but I am not referring to the statues or images in my question)
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I did also finally find a post in the apologists forum concerning this, but what I still don’t understand is how Jesus can appear as a child when He is eternally incarnate. Christ cannot simply change his body, can He? Would not this simply be something akin to Docetism?