467. The Monophysites affirmed that the human nature had ceased to exist as such in Christ when the divine person of God’s Son assumed it. Faced with this heresy, the fourth ecumenical council, at Chalcedon in 451, confessed:
Following the holy Fathers, we unanimously teach and confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: the same perfect in divinity and perfect in humanity, the same truly God and truly man, composed of rational soul and body; consubstantial with the Father as to his divinity and consubstantial with us as to his humanity; “like us in all things but sin”. He was begotten from the Father before all ages as to his divinity and in these last days, for us and for our salvation, was born as to his humanity of the virgin Mary, the Mother of God.
We confess that one and the same Christ, Lord, and only-begotten Son, is to be acknowledged in two natures without confusion, change, division or separation. the distinction between the natures was never abolished by their union, but rather the character proper to each of the two natures was preserved as they came together in one person (prosopon) and one hypostasis.
Aprofunde seus conhecimentos
385. What are the theological virtues?
494. What is the responsibility of civil authority in regard to chastity?
347. What sins are gravely opposed to the sacrament of Matrimony?
374. How is a moral conscience formed to be upright and truthful?
503. What is set forth by the seventh commandment?
423. What is the grace that justifies?
Acesse nossos estudos biblicos:
Understanding God’s Wrath – Habakkuk 1:2-4
How do the Psalms teach us to be more sensitive to God’s presence (Psalm 139:1-4)?
What does the Bible teach about transforming the body?
O que o livro de Cantares nos ensina sobre a beleza da mulher noiva e da mulher madura?
What does the phrase “we live by faith, not by sight” in 2 Corinthians 5:7 mean?
What does the promise of salvation and redemption in the midst of judgment in Micah 2:12-13 mean?
