I have been struggling with this issue and wonder whether there is any books on Christiology that William lane Craig would recommend.
If God is fully god and fully man and both natures are inter-twinned according to the council of chalcedon. How can one nature grew and another nature stay the same.
If this is true does the human nature have a body and a mind and then does the god nature have the same thing. When he died on the cross was the wrath of sin on both natures if it is not it is heretical.Also how do you define the difference between a human and an animal?
How does one nature essentially grew and yet one stay the same
If the God nature how can you justify the nature being in the subconscious(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subconscious) as it not biblical terminology.
Charles Spurgeon is his sermon says that Christ used his God nature to block out the sun
This question has been fascinating me for ages as essentially this incarnation incorporates the doctrines of man, sin and god in one concise.
Another question is says that we will become like Christ.
1 John 3:2 KJV- Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be : but we know that, when he shall appear , we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is .
What does that essentially mean. I have also been thinking about the Image of God. As man we are simply more than a cognitive animal or a god breathing ape as some of the atheists say. As God is only the one who really knows what man truly is. Language is something that is different from apes and the ability to think or plan. The bible states that man was made to rule or have dominion over the earth
Genesis 1
26 And God said , Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful , and multiply , and replenish the earth, and subdue it : and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 29 And God said , Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life , I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Say you have a chemical you can detail its properties but sometimes you can only tell what it is when it reacts with another chemical. Say you detail the properties of say Copper. It would not detail it reacts or oxidizes when in the presence of oxygen and can conduct electricity.
Is the nature of God simply more than properties as the bible defines mans nature as sinful but essentially if you were to call man a bag of chemicals of carbon and other molecules with say a soul.
The other question is how was the human fallen nature different from the human nature that say adam and say jesus had?
Genesis 3:19 KJVIn the
sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken : for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return
Does this mean our unfallen bodies will not experience tiredness.
It is fascinating ?
I have had so many other questions. Concerning every aspect. When thinking did as both natures were intertwined as one, was it his human brain thinking or a mixture. Did he will not to choose to think or use his omniscient as there are some passages when he did know the thoughts of others.
I have so many unanswered questions ?
Please can you help me
Dom