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Originally Posted by Drake
Blessed Theo said not just some energy or power.., but deity. The word is theotes referring to God's Godhead and Person.
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In other words, Jesus Christ is the God-Man. In Christ the God-man, two natures have been united: the divine and the human, without confusion, distinct, separate, and independent, each unchanged by the other.
The Fourth Ecumenical, Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD, declares: "one and the same Son, perfect in Godhead and perfect in manhood, truly God and truly man ... acknowledged in two natures unconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably: the difference between the natures is in no way removed because of the union, but rather the peculiar property of each nature is preserved, and both combine in one person and in one hypostasis." (Definition of Chalcedon, in T. Ware, The Orthodox Church).
God bless.