Trinity doctrine

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_Could someone explain this information from the catholic.com site.

“For Scripture as much announces Christ as also God, as it announces God himself as man. It has as much described Jesus Christ to be man, as moreover it has also described Christ the Lord to be God. Because it does not set forth him to be the Son of God only, but also the son of man; nor does it only say, the son of man, but it has also been accustomed to speak of him as the Son of God. So that being of both, he is both, lest if he should be one only, he could not be the other. For as nature itself has prescribed that he must be believed to be a man who is of man, so the same nature prescribes also that he must be believed to be God who is of God. . . . Let them, therefore, who read that Jesus Christ the son of man is man, read also that this same Jesus is called also God and the Son of God” (Treatise on the Trinity 11 [A.D. 235]). _
 
Brucejlb said:
_Could someone explain this information from the catholic.com site.
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Catechism
464 The unique and altogether singular event of the Incarnation of the Son of God does not mean that Jesus Christ is part God and part man, nor does it imply that he is the result of a confused mixture of the divine and the human. He became truly man while remaining truly God. Jesus Christ is true God and true man.

During the first centuries, the Church had to defend and clarify this truth of faith against the heresies that falsified it.
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If God became part man, he was able to be killed or at least subject to death ?
Sounds very confusing and somewhat vague.
 
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If God became part man, he was able to be killed or at least subject to death ?

Sounds very confusing and somewhat vague.
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God didn’t become part man. Jesus is fully human fully Divine. He came to conquer death. He became like us in every way but sin. We have immortal souls and mortal bodies. He had a mortal body too. He could have avoided death of His Body but that would have defeated the purpose for His coming. He chose to allow sinful men to kill Him. As He said He came to fulfill Scriptures.
 
Jesus Christ is not a human person; He is also not a human being.

Jesus Christ is a Divine Person, a Divine Being who fully assumed the full nature of man becoming 100% human while remaining 100% Divine. He thus has a Divine and human will.

It is a mystery that faith accepts.
 
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God became man.
He is not “part man” but fully man and fully God.

Yes, because He became man, He was able to feel and go through the same things people do, He felt pain, He suffered, and He died.

God became man, in order to die for the sins of humanity and for our salvation.
 
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