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Zant Law:
J B I think you answered you own question, the Council of Chalcedon is correct and the Jews were wrong. Clark quoted John 1, it says it all.

macuser:

--- Quote from: JB Horn on August 03, 2013, 04:35:47 pm ---Theanthropos
The God-man, that is, Christ, as uniting the divine and human natures.

The Jews had a objection to the possibility of a man being God.

John 10:33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

The fourth Council of Chalcedon Creed (451 AD) adopted that Christ was fully man and fully God.

Who is right?

--- End quote ---

The Jews were not looking for a sacrifice they were looking for a king. If Christ would've been all man with no divinity he would've been flawed and therefore unacceptable as a sacrifice for their sins. In short they were looking for a king to conquer their enemies and not a king to conquer their sins and Satan.

biblebuf:


Ran across this and thought of this old thread.


By Anselm of Canterbury, 11th century - theologian

"If it be necessary, therefore, as it appears, that the heavenly kingdom be made up of men, and this cannot be effected unless the aforesaid satisfaction be made, which none but God can make and none but man ought to make, it is necessary for the God-man to make it."
"Therefore the God-man, whom we require to be of a nature both human and Divine, cannot be produced by a change from one into the other, nor by an imperfect commingling of both in a third; since these things cannot be, or, if they could be, would avail nothing to our purpose. Moreover, if these two complete natures are said to be joined somehow, in such a way that one may be Divine while the other is human, and yet that which is God not be the same with that which is man, it is impossible for both to do the work necessary to be accomplished. For God will not do it, because he has no debt to pay; and man will not do it, because he cannot. Therefore, in order that the God-man may perform this, it is necessary that the same being should perfect God and perfect man, in order to make this atonement. For he cannot and ought not to do it, unless he be very God and very man. Since, then, it is necessary that the God-man preserve the completeness of each nature, it is no less necessary that these two natures be united entire in one person, just as a body and a reasonable soul exist together in every human being; for otherwise it is impossible that the same being should be very God and very man."

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