[16] Avoid profane, idle talk, for such people will become more and more godless,
Friday, January 16, 2009
2Tim 2, 16 Avoid profane, idle talk
(2Tim 2, 16) Avoid profane, idle talk
[16] Avoid profane, idle talk, for such people will become more and more godless,
[16] Avoid profane, idle talk, for such people will become more and more godless,
(CCC 467) The Monophysites affirmed that the human nature had ceased to exist as such in Christ when the divine person of God's Son assumed it. Faced with this heresy, the fourth ecumenical council, at Chalcedon in 451, confessed: Following the holy Fathers, we unanimously teach and confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: the same perfect in divinity and perfect in humanity, the same truly God and truly man, composed of rational soul and body; consubstantial with the Father as to his divinity and consubstantial with us as to his humanity; "like us in all things but sin". He was begotten from the Father before all ages as to his divinity and in these last days, for us and for our salvation, was born as to his humanity of the virgin Mary, the Mother of God (Council of Chalcedon (451): DS 301; cf. Heb 4:15). We confess that one and the same Christ, Lord, and only-begotten Son, is to be acknowledged in two natures without confusion, change, division or separation. The distinction between the natures was never abolished by their union, but rather the character proper to each of the two natures was preserved as they came together in one person (prosopon) and one hypostasis (Council of Chalcedon: DS 302). (CCC 481) Jesus Christ possesses two natures, one divine and the other human, not confused, but united in the one person of God's Son.
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