Q. Oookay... That will take me a while to digest... So would I be right in saying "person" answers the question "who?" and "nature" answers the question "what"?
A. Bingo!
Q. But for the rest of us normal humans, one person is always and only found in one nature?
A. Yes. And in angels as well.
Q. But this story about Jesus being one person with two natures... How does it even work out?
A. May I copy/paste from a 5th century statement of what Christians then held as part of their Christian faith?
Q. 5th century? Sure!
A. It states:
"27. Furthermore it is necessary for eternal salvation that one also believe faithfully the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
28. For the true Faith is that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man.
29. He is God, begotten of the substance of the Father before all ages; and Man, of the substance of his Mother in time.
30. He is perfect God; and perfect Man, with a rational soul and human flesh.
31. Equal to the Father in his divinity; lower than the Father in his humanity.
32. Even though he is both God and man, Christ is not two persons but one.
33. He is one, however, not by conversion of the divinity into flesh, but by the assumption of the humanity into God.
34. He is altogether one, not by intermingling of substance, but in unity of the person.
35. For, just as a rational soul and flesh are one man, so God and Man are one in Christ."
#7thdayofChristmas
Many thanks for all the support - and in a special way for all the questions and debates - in 2015!
As one of you was commenting, it's lamentable we have impressive KCPE, KCSE certificates, undergrad degrees and masters degrees yet we wouldn't even get a report form let alone a certificate or diploma for our knowledge of our Christian faith.
Hope Q&A can somehow serve as an informal remedy in this regard...
31st December 2015