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An 8 page paper. The complete stimulus sentence is: The pre-existent divine Word or Son took on human nature as Jesus of Nazareth. The essay begins by reporting the conclusions of the Chalcedonian council and discusses Jesus as God and as human. Discussions include Christ was human but not a human person, pre-existence, kenosis, and types of Christology, among other things. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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should it be understood in a treatment of Jesus for today? This statement testifies to the belief that Jesus is both Divine and human. At the ecumenical council held
at Chalcedonian, the fathers strongly agreed that Jesus Christ is "truly God and truly man" (Chalcedonian Definition, p. 334). This confirmed what was concluded at Nicaea and earlier councils and
it adhered to the Creeds that had been written at these councils. The Fathers at the Chalcedonian council also made it clear that Jesus Christ always was: He was before
He was begotten on earth, He always was, and always will be one substance with the Father (Chalcedonian Definition, p. 335). This testifies to His pre-existence as the Divine Son
in the Trinity. The statement says that: Jesus is now, always was and always will be. While the term pre-existence is not used in Scripture, it is subsumed in numerous
verses. For instance, Paul wrote: "But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law" (Galatians 4:4) and "God did by sending
his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering" (Romans 8:3). As reported in later discussions, Jesus referred to Himself as being sent from the
Father, as being from above, and other such phrases (Kasper, 1978, p. 173). Jesus was in all ways like us with one great exception: He had no sin (Chalcedonian Definition,
p. 337). He was not a human person, rather, as Collins (1977) points out He is God, the Son, who took on human form and experienced human nature (p. 182).
He is a Divine person. Thomas Aquinas said: "the person of the Son of God became a person of human nature" (Collins, 1977, p. 182). Collins (1977) puts it this
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