| Evangelical "Kenotic" Christology either posits...
1) "God the Son in a Human Embyro Costume": This view says that Jesus is the Word/Logos because the Divine Mind of the Logos is exhaustively localized in Jesus' body/soul union and running things there. In other words, immediately post-Immaculate Conception, the divine mind of God the Son--exhaustively confined to a human zygote in the womb of Mary---was CONTINUING the interpersonal, uncreated communication/interaction with God the Father and God the Spirit that has eternally been going on before then. This is nothing more or less than God the Son in a human flesh "costume."
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2) "Human Embryo growing up to be God's Son": This view holds that the human being, Jesus, was adopted as God's Son some time AFTER the Immaculate Conception event. In other words, the divine identity of God the Son, immediately post-Immaculate Conception, effectively ceases to exist...and thus is NOT CONTINUING the interpersonal, uncreated communication/interaction with God the Father and God the Spirit that has eternally being going on before then. This means the zygote BECOMES the Son of God AFTER Immaculate Conception when it later develops more interpersonal abilities to reengage the trinitarian interpersonal relationships.
In order for the "uncreated personhood" of the Incarnate Word/Son IN VITRO within the Kenotic View schema to be maintained in any real type of sense, one can ONLY choose option #1...but that's functionally anti-Chalcedonian.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. Post Edited (One Love) : 10/21/2011 3:12:28 PM (GMT-5) |