A good reason not to believe in God

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see from page 4 "The Logical Possibility of the Incarnation" : http://www.scribd.com/doc/45978722/One-P...atic-Union

I've summarised it for you:

A person is an individual substance with a structured set of mental properties,faculties (a natural grouping of capacities),and higher order capacities, unified by internal relations.

A nature is a property that includes all properties essential to an individual being a member of a kind, which are necessarily co-instantiated in an substance of that kind.

1.

Jesus voluntarily elects to limit the exercise of his personhood through his human nature, gaining information about theworld through the perceptual faculties of his human body, learning and storing memories through the instrumentality of his human brain, living a perfect human life by his perfect obedience and complete dependence on the Holy Spirit.
DeWeese, p. 13.

it is equality with God, not the form of God, of which Jesus emptied himself. While he did not cease to be in nature what the Father was, he becamefunctionally subordinated to the Fatherfor the period of the incarnation… Bytaking on human nature, he accepted certain limitations upon the functioning of his divine attributes.
Erickson, The Word Became Flesh, p. 751.

Erickson summarizes this line of thoughtby asking, “May not the incarnation be a matter of divine self-limitation, freely chosenand appropriate to deity?"

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…none of us is humanity as God intended it to be or as it came from his hand. Humanity was spoiled and corrupted by the sin of Adam and Eve. Consequently, we are not true human beings, but impaired, broken-down vestiges of essential humanity.

We sometimes approach the incarnationthe wrong way. We define deity andhumanity abstractly and then say, ‘Theycould not possibly fit together.’… If,however, we begin with the reality of theincarnation in Jesus Christ, we not onlysee better what the two natures are like,but recognize that whatever they are, theyare not incompatible, for they once didcoexist in one person. And what is actualis of course possible.