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Originally Posted by Drake
OBW,
Not so fast!
If the Father, Son, and Spirit co-exist and coinhere as co-equals from eternity past to eternity future how is it possible that "The Triune God did not become flesh. The Son did. The Triune God did not die on the cross or resurrect. The Son did".
Please advise.
Thanks
Drake
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That's right. It is wrong to say that *only* the Son became flesh - that is the heresy of tri-theism, that the Son is separated from the Father and the Spirit. We only need to look into the conception of Christ to realize that the Spirit of the Father, even the Father Himself, conceived Christ. The Father did not create a third thing, but clothed Himself with human flesh. Therefore the Spirit of the Father, and the Father Himself were present in Christ's life even to the cross.
http://biblehub.com/sermons/pub/chri...uman_flesh.htm
The pure Godhead is terrible to behold; we could not see it and live; but clothing Himself with our flesh, makes the Divine nature more amiable and delightful to us. Now we need not be afraid to look upon God, seeing Him through Christ's human nature. It was a custom of old among the shepherds, they were wont to clothe themselves with sheep-skins, to be more pleasing to the sheep; so Christ clothed Himself with our flesh, that the Divine nature may be more pleasing to us. The human nature is a glass, through which we may see the love and wisdom and glory of God clearly represented to us. Through the lantern of Christ's humanity, we may behold the light of the Deity shining.