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Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself (ekenÅsen heauton), taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death ...
Although he is God and human, yet Christ is not two, but one. He is one, however, not by his divinity being turned into flesh, but by God's taking humanity to himself. He is one, certainly not by the blending of his essence, but by the unity of his person. For just as one human is both rational soul and flesh, so too the one Christ is both God ...
Some Protestant theologians believe that God the Son emptied himself [11] of divine attributes in order to become human. Others reject this. [12] In principio erat verbum, Latin for In the beginning was the Word, from the Clementine Vulgate, Gospel of John, 1:1–18.
The theological term for this is hypostatic union: the second person of the Trinity, God the Son, became flesh when he was miraculously conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary. [3] Biblical passages traditionally referenced in connection with the doctrine of the Incarnation include John 3:1–21 , Colossians 2:9 , and Philippians 2:7–8 .
The body of Christ was therefore subject to all the bodily weaknesses to which human nature is universally subject; such are hunger (Matthew.4:2), thirst (John 19:28), fatigue (John 4:6), pain, and death. They were the natural results of the human nature he assumed. [16]
But he emptied himself. Taking on the form of a slave, And coming in the likeness of humans. And being found in appearance as a human. He humbled himself Becoming obedient unto death— even death on a cross. Therefore God highly exalted him. And bestowed on him the name That is above every name, That at the name of Jesus. Every knee should bow
"Therefore He was not man, and then became God, but He was God, and then became man, and that to deify us" [Primary 12] "for as the Lord, putting on the body, became man, so we men are deified by the Word as being taken to Him through His flesh." [Primary 13] "For He was made man that we might be made God." [Primary 14] Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335 ...
Cur Deus Homo? (Latin for "Why [Was] God a Human?"), usually translated Why God Became a Man, is a book written by Anselm of Canterbury in the period of 1094–1098.In this work he proposes the satisfaction view of the atonement.