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taken from Mary, but no human spirit; the Spirit of God took the place of the human spirit. If this is true, they are refuting all the scripture that say the Word became flesh. The above version would mean that you have God incarnate in human nature. If God is incarnate in human nature, then you have an insufficient sacrifice because natural flesh and blood can not inherit or purchase the kingdom of God (John 1:1-29; I Corinthians 15:45-50; Hebrews 1:3; 9:14; John 10:30).
Monothelitism in the fifth century suggested that Jesus had only one will. Thiscouldbecorrectbecauseitcouldshowthereisonlyoneper son in the incarnated deity. The flesh would not have it's own will, but the will of the incarnated Father. At the council of Chalcedon in 451, a creed was adopted which has become the accepted standard orthodoxy as relating to the two natures of Christ. The council declared that the deity and humanity of Christ exists, "without con fusion, without change, without division, without separation." The two natures, which they believe are God the Son and Christ the humansonofMary,coalescedinonepersonandonesubstance. But Bible writers' theology never declared it any other way than one God manifest in the Word that became flesh (John 1:1-18; I Timothy 3:16). The Arian in the foiurth centxuy view about Christ says that he was
not a true God, and was in no way equal with God in essence or eter nity. Before time was, Christ was created. The Logos of God was the first born of all creation and the agent in fashioning the world. In the incarnation, the Logos entered the human body (Mary's son), taking the place of the human spirit. Thus Christ was neither fully God nor fully man.
Nestorian in the fifth century view denied the real union of the two natures of Christ (the so-called God the Son, and the created humani ty from the very nature of Mary), into one person, and implied a two fold personality. The Logos dwelt in the man-Jesus, so that the union between the two natures, the Son of God and son of Mary, was some what analogous to the indwelling of the Spirit.
The Council of Chalcedon in 451 established what has been the position of the Trinitarian church until this day. They agreed, speaking of God the Son, that "...there is one Jesus Christ, but he has two natures, the human and the divine. He is truly man and truly God, composed of body and rational soul. He is consubstantial with the Father and His deity, and con- substantial with man (son of Mary) in his humanity, except for sin.
"In his deity, he was begotten of the Father before time, as God the Son