What Is the Hypostatic Union?
What Is the Hypostatic Union? The hypostatic union is the doctrine that Jesus Christ is one Person with two distinct natures — fully God and fully man — united forever.
Key verse: John 1:14 (KJV)
The hypostatic union is the doctrine that Jesus Christ is one Person with two distinct natures — fully God and fully man — united forever.
The hypostatic union is the doctrine that Jesus Christ is one Person with two distinct natures — fully God and fully man — united forever.
"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." — John 1:14 (KJV)
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The hypostatic union describes the mystery of the incarnation. In the Person of Jesus Christ, two complete natures — divine and human — are joined in one Person, without confusion, without change, without division, and without separation. Christ is not half God and half man, nor is He two persons. He is one Person who possesses all the attributes of true deity and all the attributes of true humanity. 'The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us' (John 1:14). This union is essential to the gospel. As God, Christ's sacrifice has infinite value; as man, He could stand in our place. Only a divine-human Mediator could reconcile God and sinners.
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"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."
"For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily."
"Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men."
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