12-17-2004, 06:11 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by paul manata
wait for a second, how do I disagree with the catechism on this?
I would not make any representation of God, any of the persons of the Godhead, any thing intended to represent, tangibly or intangibly, any of the divine personages. I would seek to see how I did any of these things. I would seek to keep pure religious worship, detest false worship, etc.
That is, where does the catechism say that Christ's *humanity* cannot be depicted?
[Edited on 12-17-2004 by paul manata]
| "the making any representation of God, of all or of any of the three persons" (WLC 109)
Unless you are a Nestorian, and say that the Nature can be separated from a Person. I was going here later (much later) but we can begin here. Do you disagree with WLC 36? Quote: |
The only Mediator of the covenant of grace is the Lord Jesus Christ, who, being the eternal Son of God, of one substance and equal with the Father, in the fulness of time became man, and so was and continues to be God and man, in two entire distinct natures, and one person, forever.
| Or WLC 40? Quote:
Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be God and man in one person?
It was requisite that the Mediator, who was to reconcile God and man, should himself be both God and man, and this in one person, that the proper works of each nature might be accepted of God for us, and relied on by us, as the works of the whole person |
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