Christs Incarnation Flashcards
5 Tenets of the doctrine of Christ’s two natures in one Person
1) These limitations were not the result of a loss of divine attributes but of the addition of human attributes.
2) The union of the two natures meant that they did not function independently.
3) In thinking about the incarnation, we must begin not with the traditional conceptions of humanity and deity, but with the recognition that the two are most fully known in Jesus Christ.
4) It is important to think of the initiative of the incarnation as coming from above, as it were, rather than from below.
5) It is also helpful to think of Jesus as a very complex person.This point serves to remind us that the person of Jesus was not simply an amalgam of human and divine qualities merged into some sort of tertium quid.Rather, his was a personality that in addition to the characteristics of divine nature had all the qualities or attributes of perfect, sinless human nature as well.
