466. The Nestorian heresy regarded Christ as a human person joined to the divine person of God’s Son. Opposing this heresy, St. Cyril of Alexandria and the third ecumenical council, at Ephesus in 431, confessed “that the Word, uniting to himself in his person the flesh animated by a rational soul, became man.” Christ’s humanity has no other subject than the divine person of the Son of God, who assumed it and made it his own, from his conception. For this reason the Council of Ephesus proclaimed in 431 that Mary truly became the Mother of God by the human conception of the Son of God in her womb: “Mother of God, not that the nature of the Word or his divinity received the beginning of its existence from the holy Virgin, but that, since the holy body, animated by a rational soul, which the Word of God united to himself according to the hypostasis, was born from her, the Word is said to be born according to the flesh.”
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208. What is the particular judgment?
436. What does “Decalogue” mean?
38. With what name does God reveal Himself?
384. What are the theological virtues?
510. When does the Church intervene in social areas?
203. What is meant by the “resurrection of the body”?
Acesse nossos estudos biblicos:
What is the teaching on leading humble servants in 3 John 1:1-4?
What does Nahum 1:9 say about God’s mercy to those who repent?
Joseph’s story: How did God use Joseph’s story to fulfill his purposes?
What does the Bible teach about God’s final judgment, and what does Malachi 3:18 tell us about it?
