9:43PM - Which book of the Bible are you?"
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Which book of the Bible are you?
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One of the heresies condemned by Council of Chalcedon in 451 was Nestorianism. This is the teaching that Christ is two persons - one human, one divine. It is not clear if Nestorius taught this exactly, but in any case he said that each of Christ's natures retained its own prosÅpon, (literally "face" but translating into Latin as persona). Chalcedon refuted this with a wonderfully balanced statement. It said that the Lord Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man - one person in two natures. To be precise, he is "recognized in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation... the characteristics of each nature being preserved and coming together to form one person and subsistence."
I recently came across a subtle variation of Nestorianism on CF. A guy who claims to be a "conservative evangelical" (whatever that means) was trying to convince me that the name "Jesus" refers only to Christ's human nature, while the Logos refers to his divine nature.
Now, it may be true that in Scripture these various names emphasise thing about Christ, but in suggesting these names are attached to Christ's natures, he is giving each nature its own persona, and thus slipping into the error of Nestorius.
Yet, the name "Jesus" in the New Testament refers to his entire person, which is fully divine as well as being fully human. Jesus is the Christ. Jesus of Nazereth is indeed the Messiah. So in Acts 3:15 Peter can call Jesus the "Author of Life". Of course, this is one of the few times outside the gospels the name 'Jesus' appears by itself - it is almost always "Jesus Christ" or "Christ Jesus," which shows that the two cannot be separated.
Moreover the Second Council of Constantinople in 553 condemned this view as well. It claimed that the Nestorians call the God the Word, "Jesus and Christ, designating the man separately as Christ and as Son," and so were anathema.
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