Pam
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Hi, guys —
Recently, I read an article where someone claimed
Jesus is both created and uncreated.
Surely, this isn't what Roman Catholics believe
because the Nicene Creed says Christ is begotten
and not made, yet some Catholics insist he
is created because of His Incarnation.
- What is the official Church teaching
on this?
Thank you!!
Pam
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If the Creed says, Christ is begotten
and not made, how can this article claim Jesus was created? }
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Mary
Ann replied:
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Pam —
The Son is begotten and not made.
The Second Person of the Trinity,
the Son, took flesh in a created
human nature, and was named Jesus.
Mary Ann
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Paul
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Pam,
That would depend on which nature
of the hypostatic union you speak
of. As a divine Person with a
divine nature, He is God,
uncreated, and is eternally begotten
of the Father but His
human nature which He assumed,
was created in time, two thousand
years ago in the womb of the Blessed
Virgin Mary.
The following is from the Compendium of the Catechism
of the Catholic Church
From Chapter Two: I Believe in Jesus Christ, the Only Son of God.
(Questions 79 to 135)
87. In what way is Jesus Christ true
God and true man?
Jesus is inseparably true God
and true man in the unity of his
divine Person. As the Son of God,
who is “begotten, not made,
consubstantial with the Father,” he
was made true man, our brother,
without ceasing to be God, Our
Lord.
88. What does the Council of Chalcedon (in the year 451) teach in this regard?
The Council of Chalcedon teaches
us to confess “one and the
same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ,
perfect in his humanity, true
God and true man, composed of
rational soul and body, consubstantial
with the Father by his divinity,
and consubstantial with us by
his humanity, ‘like us in
all things but sin' (Hebrews
4:15), begotten from the Father
before all ages as to his divinity,
and in these last days, for us
and for our salvation, born of
Mary, the Virgin and Mother of
God, as to his humanity.”
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Paul
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