Question about the Trinity from today’s Liturgy

[Tom7]

Hello
I was reading the Litugy reading this morning. Peter says that God “made” Jesus both Lord and Christ. How does the fit with the idea that Jesus is God?

Also in the John reading Jesus tells Mary to tell his brothers that he is ascending to “his God and their God.” These texts seem to me (ignorant as I am) to suggest that God is supreme and Christ isn’t.

Could you straighten it out for me please?

Tom.

 

[Wesrock]

Jesus is both fully God and fully man, and in the Incarnation and Resurrection God exalted a human nature alongside his own Divine Nature. Remember that the human nature of Jesus, body and soul, is a creature , and yet the person of Jesus, the God and also the man, is made Lord of all.

 

[Tom7]

Thank you for such a quick response. So are you saying that God is now man?

 

[Wesrock]

Thank you for such a quick response. So are you saying that God is now man?

Yes, through the hypostatic union, which is the word used to describe the union of the divine nature and a human nature into one person of Jesus.

However, don’t think that God changed into a man. Rather, the bodiless and invisible God assumed a human nature in the Incarnation, but he did not change his own Divine Substance into that man, or constrain himself to existing in just a human body. The Divine Substance, invisible and bodiless and uncircumscribable, exists always and eternally, and assumed flesh by uniting a human nature to himself through the second person of the Trinity.