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Expert: Herman - 11/3/2009
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QUESTION: 1. What is exactly the human nature of Christ and how is it different from our human nature?
2. What is enhypostasis?
Thank you for helping to understanding.
ANSWER: The human nature that Christ assumed was exactly like ours, but without sin. He was perfectly obedient to the will of the Father. His human nature felt hunger and thirst and fear, just as we do. Other than being the uncontainable God. clothed in our humanity for our sake, He was just like us.
Hypostasis refers to the Personhood of Christ, His distinct identity within the Holy Trinity as the Son. Enhypostasis refers to the fact that His human nature was totally incorporated with His Divine Nature, such that while He has two natures, He remains one Person, one Hypostasis.
Your servant,
Herman
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QUESTION: Does the hypostasis necessarily to have a body? In the case of Christ, whose body does it belong to? To us, as a human being, according to Roman 5:12, the body is corrupted, was the body of Christ exempted by the theotokos?
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Not just our bodies, but all of creation was corrupted in the Fall. Christ takes on that which is corruptible and gives it incorruptibility. He takes that which is mortal and gives it immortality. By assuming our nature, He "fixes" it. He is God, and can do whatever He wants. He did not need a body, but we needed Him to take on our corrupted nature and restore it to its pre-Fall state.
Your servant,
Herman
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