Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Another dilemma for Trinitarian Theology

In traditional Trinitarian theologies, Christ remains the “God-man” in his role as the heavenly high priest (cf. Rom 8:33-34; Heb 7:24-25; 8:1, 3), and will remain so eternally. However, alongside the logical problems of the hypostatic union (see my discussion of this doctrine in this paper, for example, under the heading, "The Hypostatic Union Examined"), the fact that Jesus, as the second member of the Tri-une God, has an additional (and now, exalted [cf. Phil 2:9]) nature than what He had prior to the Incarnation. This is handily illustrated in the following diagram that I recently came across (click to enlarge):




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