On the Incarnation
Last night in our Foundations class at Foothills Community Church I taught on the Hypostatic Union, that is, how Jesus is both fully God and fully Man. In the Incarnation, Jesus who is God added to Himself humanity. God literally “put on flesh” (John 1:14).
It was a glorious time delving this mystery while saturating our minds with Who Jesus is in His perfect Person. He is God! He is Man! He is the God-Man!
A helpful resource on this topic comes from the staff of Desiring God, who put together this article summarizing the five main truths put forth in the Chalcedonean Creed, AD 451.
I also highly recommend getting to know Athanasius, the father of orthodoxy, and his treatise On the Incarnation available to read online here and here. Athanasius stood contra mundum (”against the world”) in defense of the biblical doctrine of Christ. He opposed Arius at the Council of Nicea in AD 325, when it seemed all the world would follow Arius’ heresy. Athanasius’ work remains even today one of the definitive statements of orthodox Trinitarianism.
- Also see some notes on Athanasius life from Monday’s post.
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