Rainee
Puritan Board Freshman
The study group I belong to discovered the following quote on p. 354 of Rev. Hoeksema's Reformed Dogmatics (1966 single volume version) in his teachings about Nestorianism where he said it is important to make a Person and Nature distinction (defining the human nature as body and soul, including a human mind and a human will).
"Hence, it is certainly correct to say that in the case of the incarnation the Person of the Son came from God, then nature from the virgin Mary. But if this is true of the incarnation, it must also be true of the birth of every human individual. The whole nature is born; the person comes into being by an act of God."
Do you agree with us that this teaching elucidates the Creed of Chalcedon while also clarifying what all human beings are including Christ?
"Hence, it is certainly correct to say that in the case of the incarnation the Person of the Son came from God, then nature from the virgin Mary. But if this is true of the incarnation, it must also be true of the birth of every human individual. The whole nature is born; the person comes into being by an act of God."
Do you agree with us that this teaching elucidates the Creed of Chalcedon while also clarifying what all human beings are including Christ?