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Series: Christ's Heart for Sinners
Stephen Whitney
John 11:32-36
One of the things that is difficult to understand about Jesus is his two distinct natures. He was both divine and human. It can be difficult to understand that Jesus took on a human body.
John 1:14 The Word (Jesus) became flesh and dwelt among us.
Flesh - Gk. the soft tissue of the body which covers the bones.
In other words, a natural physical human body.
For 30 years Jesus lived on the earth in a body and then returned back to heaven in that body which reflected his humanity. Once Jesus took on a human body, he continues to have it forever.
There are some who believe that Jesus gave up his human body when he went back to heaven, but that is wrong. He will forever
have a physical body which he took on when he was born.
In the 400's there were debates about how the divine and human natures of Christ existed in relation to one another. One leader said that just as a drop of honey is dissolved when it falls into the sea, so the human nature of Christ is lost in the divine. This statement caused controversy within the church.
Roman Emperor Marcian brought together the church leaders
to write a statement about the divinity and humanity of Christ.
Not far from Constantinople, in what is modern Turkey, almost 400 bishops gathered to condemn the heresy that the human nature of Christ was lost in his divine nature.
The counsel of Chalcedon (451 AD) wrote a new definition of the divinity and humanity of Christ to confirm both of his natures:
''We all with one voice confess our Lord Jesus Christ one and the same Son, at once complete in Godhead and complete in man-
hood, truly God and truly man . . . acknowledged in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, or without separation; the distinction of natures being in no way abolished
because of the union, but rather the characteristic property of each nature being preserved and comin ...
Series: Christ's Heart for Sinners
Stephen Whitney
John 11:32-36
One of the things that is difficult to understand about Jesus is his two distinct natures. He was both divine and human. It can be difficult to understand that Jesus took on a human body.
John 1:14 The Word (Jesus) became flesh and dwelt among us.
Flesh - Gk. the soft tissue of the body which covers the bones.
In other words, a natural physical human body.
For 30 years Jesus lived on the earth in a body and then returned back to heaven in that body which reflected his humanity. Once Jesus took on a human body, he continues to have it forever.
There are some who believe that Jesus gave up his human body when he went back to heaven, but that is wrong. He will forever
have a physical body which he took on when he was born.
In the 400's there were debates about how the divine and human natures of Christ existed in relation to one another. One leader said that just as a drop of honey is dissolved when it falls into the sea, so the human nature of Christ is lost in the divine. This statement caused controversy within the church.
Roman Emperor Marcian brought together the church leaders
to write a statement about the divinity and humanity of Christ.
Not far from Constantinople, in what is modern Turkey, almost 400 bishops gathered to condemn the heresy that the human nature of Christ was lost in his divine nature.
The counsel of Chalcedon (451 AD) wrote a new definition of the divinity and humanity of Christ to confirm both of his natures:
''We all with one voice confess our Lord Jesus Christ one and the same Son, at once complete in Godhead and complete in man-
hood, truly God and truly man . . . acknowledged in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, or without separation; the distinction of natures being in no way abolished
because of the union, but rather the characteristic property of each nature being preserved and comin ...
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