The eternity of God's nature and Jesus

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If God is eternal and unchanging, then:

A) Could Jesus have assumed a human form?

B) Could that human form be raised to heaven?

You see my dilemma.
 
What exactly is the dilemma? That His being eternal does not allow Him to become finite in time, i.e., becoming man in a specific time period and carrying out a particular task?

God did become man in the person Jesus Christ, the second person of the Blessed Trinity. The mystery of the three persons in one God has a significant role here in understanding how this can actually take place, i.e., God becoming man and undertaking the task unprecedented in human existence. God deigned this to occur within the limits of human existence.

Jesus’ hypostatic union of having a divine nature as well as a human nature explains how eternal meets the external of human form and carries out the mission of salvation for the human race.
 
Right, and perhaps most importantly for the OP’s question, God’s essential nature did not change at the Incarnation. A human nature was joined to it, but the divine nature itself continued unaltered as it had been for eternity.
 
If God is eternal and unchanging, then:

A) Could Jesus have assumed a human form?
You are correct on your observation. A changeless God cannot assume a changeable form.
B) Could that human form be raised to heaven?

You see my dilemma.
All I can say that I don’t think that you as human being can go to timeless heaven where there is no change.
 
You are correct on your observation. A changeless God cannot assume a changeable form.
God did not assume a form, He assumed a nature.
All I can say that I don’t think that you as human being can go to timeless heaven where there is no change.
I know you think wrongly on this.
 
Yes God is eternal and unchanging but only His Divine nature not his Human nature.
God cannot have human nature since you need a soul to be human while you have two beings once soul is created.
Jesus assumed human nature in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, at the moment of the Incarnation was when He took on human flesh, this is when He took on our human nature. It is that human nature that ascended into Heaven and is still there today…
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Yes God is eternal and unchanging but only His Divine nature not his Human nature.

Jesus assumed human nature in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, at the moment of the Incarnation was when He took on human flesh, this is when He took on our human nature. It is that human nature that ascended into Heaven and is still there today.

God’s divine nature had no beginning and no end, but God’s human nature clearly had a beginning and that was in the womb of Mary.
Did eternal substance transform into material? Did eternal nature settle in material body?(Eternal essence do not settle in time and matter!) Or did Jesus has another mortal soul like others human? If it is so how could mortal soul and eternal essence unite?

If human nature has beginning so how could Jesus be eternal? Was he half god?

God created Jesus without a father and that is very easy for God. God had created Adam without father and mother which seems more complex than creating Jesus into a womb.
 
If God is eternal and unchanging, then:

A) Could Jesus have assumed a human form?

B) Could that human form be raised to heaven?

You see my dilemma.
I’d suggest God is eternal and unchanging because he is outside of time. Every moment we would consider in time is present to God. If at time A, God is not incarnate and at time B God is incarnate, from an eternal perspective, He has not changed as He was always like this. To say this is contradictory isn’t the case because God is not incarnate and not-incarnate at the same time.
 
I’d suggest God is eternal and unchanging because he is outside of time. Every moment we would consider in time is present to God. If at time A, God is not incarnate and at time B God is incarnate, from an eternal perspective, He has not changed as He was always like this. To say this is contradictory isn’t the case because God is not incarnate and not-incarnate at the same time.
Eternal essence does not change. l mean eternal substance does not settle in time and matter and not transform into matter and time. The time and matter are being created by God. lncarnate is not valid for God.
 
If God is eternal and unchanging, then:

A) Could Jesus have assumed a human form?
God can do anything (within logical possibilities). God is not limited by anything. Thus, he can be joined to a human nature.
B) Could that human form be raised to heaven?.
Yes. But it was changed. The Resurrected body of Christ is immortal. Again, God can do anything.
 
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