(May 26, 2016 at 12:39 pm)Ignorant Wrote:(May 25, 2016 at 10:47 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Was Jesus 100% god, 100% human, both, or neither...it seems like you're saying that Jesus can both die and not die because a God isn't limited by our understanding of reality or our limitations.
At least as far as Catholics go, Jesus was "consubstantial" with God according to divinity (100% if you like, but it's not the best way to put it), and "consubstantial" with us according to humanity. Anything you can say about god, you can say about Jesus. Anything you can say about humanity (with the exception of sin) you can say about Jesus. He was a single divine person with a human nature (body AND soul) united to the divine person. The classical formula was made at the council of Chalcedon.
Jesus, who has a human body and a human soul (i.e. a human nature), died a human death according to that nature (which is the separation of the soul from the body). The divine person experienced human death through his union with the human nature (the human nature died while united to the divine nature). That's what we say anyway.
Thanks for at least giving an answer...but that really, really doesn't seem to make much of any kind of sense to me. Especially when it's all just assertions.
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