JOwen
Puritan Board Junior
Brothers,
Need some help with this question that keeps popping up in my mind as I read Chapter 8 of my beloved Confession (WCF). As a "soft" Clarkian I have the answer, but I'm interested in the Van Tillian response just to help out my polemic understanding of epistemology. Here goes.....
If Van Til insists that there is a creator/creature distinction so that man cannot think the same way God does at any point, then how could Christ be of two distinct NATURES and one PERSON? In the PERSON of Christ (where creature and creator meet), why is this not the intersection between God\'s thoughts and our own?
"Person" requires thinking (and more, I know). But because both natures meet in one PERSON "without conversion, composition, or confusion", this would necessitate an intersection of Divine and human, else there would be two persons instead of one.
Not picking a fight. I really want to know the Van Til mind on this one. And be gentle. I'm a pastor, not a philosopher
Kind regards,
Jerrold H. Lewis
[Edited on 4-29-2005 by JOwen]
Need some help with this question that keeps popping up in my mind as I read Chapter 8 of my beloved Confession (WCF). As a "soft" Clarkian I have the answer, but I'm interested in the Van Tillian response just to help out my polemic understanding of epistemology. Here goes.....
If Van Til insists that there is a creator/creature distinction so that man cannot think the same way God does at any point, then how could Christ be of two distinct NATURES and one PERSON? In the PERSON of Christ (where creature and creator meet), why is this not the intersection between God\'s thoughts and our own?
"Person" requires thinking (and more, I know). But because both natures meet in one PERSON "without conversion, composition, or confusion", this would necessitate an intersection of Divine and human, else there would be two persons instead of one.
Not picking a fight. I really want to know the Van Til mind on this one. And be gentle. I'm a pastor, not a philosopher
Kind regards,
Jerrold H. Lewis
[Edited on 4-29-2005 by JOwen]