the Bible tells us that
the Word became flesh and dwelt among us .. John 1:14 at His Incarnation (by His mother Mary, according to the manhood), not that He has been both Divine and human from everlasting, unless I've missed something?
The declaration of the Hypostatic Union stems from the Nicene Creed that states "We believe in one Lord,
Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true
God from true God, begotten,
not made, consubstantial of one Being with the Father.
consubstantial
kɒnsəbˈstanʃ(ə)l/
adjective
adjective:
consubstantial
- of the same substance or essence (used especially of the three persons of the Trinity in Christian theology).
"Christ is consubstantial with the Father"
I believe you have missed something very very important.
The Hypostatic Union (HU) of God and Humanity is uncreated and has no beginning. To imply that the HU had a beginning, only after the incarnation unwittingly results in a Nestorian dilemma in that the mere implication is that before the incarnation there existed two separate natures and this also goes against the Nicene Creed that declares that the HU is uncreated and has no beginning.
The Word became flesh meaning a terrestrial form and dwelt amongst us, yet the HU is not the terrestrial fleshly form, because the inseparable nature of the HU is uncreated and must have pre-existed the incarnation of the flesh.
The Living Word, the second member of the Trinity is (uncreated) God and Human from everlasting, where humanity is an inherent attribute of the uncreated nature and not the flesh the HU was clothed with at the incarnation.
If I have, please tell me/us where we can find that teaching in the Bible.
The HU walked in the Garden and interacted and talked with Adam and Eve. The HU would also say that before Abraham was I Am and this forms the preeminence of the Son as the one and only of his kind the HU and from before the creation of the world. This implies that when he breathed into Adam in creating Adam in his likeness we automatically can draw that we received our humanity from the HU and not the other way around as some theologians would suggest that the HU received it from Mary at the incarnation. The Living Word (LOGOS) is the HU that is the one uncreated and unbegotten nature and if he from before the world was created by him was not HU then we would not be human. Do you understand? The HU created Adam like himself that is his humanity for this is where we humans received our humanity.
The Living Word did not receive his HU uncreated nature because he just was from the beginning. So it would be in error to think that HU became HU and this implies a beginning which goes against the Nicene Creed and it creates a Nestorian heretical problem of two separate natures existing before the incarnation, where the Devine is separate to the Humanity, which is a heresy.
For example, the statement below is a Nestorian Heresy.
"not that He has been both Divine and human from everlasting"
In the resurrection, though the HU took on the new Heavenly form, his HU status remained unchanged because he never received it at the incarnation from Mary but was HU from the beginning as the uncreated eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true
God from true God, begotten,
not made, consubstantial of one Being with the Father. (Nicene Creed)
The Bible also teaches us that at His Incarnation, Jesus was
made in our likeness, in likeness of men, not the other way around .. e.g.
Philippians 2:7
As soon as you use this reverse logic then you have Genesis happening at the incarnation where humanity creates God in their own image and this would imply two separate natures before the incarnation and this forms the basis of the Nestorian heresy.
The truth is found in Genesis where the Hypostatic Union of God and Man created humanity in his own image. This points to nature, which implies that we received our human nature from the HU, otherwise we would not be human and/or some other god would have imparted his distinct nature. We owe our humanity to the HU, not the other way around.
Finally, the Godhead consists of one God who exists from everlasting as three "Persons", not one God with multiple personalities (or some sort of Divine multiple personality disorder
).
With reference to the Nicene Creed, the One God is the One Being, is the One Agency.
"eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true
God from true God, begotten,
not made, consubstantial of one Being with the Father."
Consubstantial of one Being is the I AM, the first and the last of his kind, the Alpha and Omega. Nicene Creed declares the Trinity is One Substance indivisible, hence he is the One God being.
Within the singular God being (substance) exists coeternal and coequally three personas or personalities that are revealed through scripture. Three personalities within the one God Being do not equate to three separate beings. There is no personality disorder within an omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient being.
p.s. - what does it mean to "breath humanity", and that into all of mankind? And again, where does the Bible describe that particular event happening?
The HU created man in his own Human nature and this is where we received our humanity in the Genesis account. If the Word received his humanity in the incarnation then it is man who created God in his own image and Genesis of HU at the incarnation would imply separate natures before the incarnation and a beginning for the HU which is a Nestorian heresy and goes against the Nicene Creed.
