12-05-2013, 09:42 AM
I think that if a separation occurred between Jesus's divinity and humanity, then the incarnation would have ceased at that moment. I believe in a unity between Jesus's deity and humanity, what can be said about one of his natures can be said of His entire being. It can't be said that when Jesus said, "Before Abraham was I was," that the deity of Jesus was speaking, and it can't be said that when Jesus said, "My Father is greater than I," that His humanity was speaking. Natures don't speak: persons do. Speaking of Jesus in this way (which Andrew Roth does at some points during his commentary in the AENT) is what makes people misunderstand that position of Nestorius (who did teach a separation between the humanity and deity of Jesus, I think). The intention isn't to teach that Jesus is two Persons, but it ends up that way. The natures of Jesus's deity and humanity are closely united, but still distinct. You can say some things about deity that you can't say about humanity obviously. Jesus isn't a Hercules, He is 100% God and 100% man, he isn't a mixture of the two. That's all I'm gonna say about the matter. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s -->