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The Chalcedonian Creed
(A.D. 451)
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Eutichus (the founder of
Eutichianism) argued that
Christ's human and divine
natures merged to form a third
composite nature. "The divine
nature was so modified and
accommodated to the human nature
that Christ was not really
divine...At the same time the
human nature was so modified and
changed by assimilation to the
divine nature that He was no
longer genuinely human." Thus,
according to this teaching,
Christ was neither fully human
nor fully divine. This view was
condemned by the Council of
Chalcedon in A.D. 451. |
We,
then, following the holy Fathers,
all with one consent, teach men to
confess one and the same Son, our Lord
Jesus Christ,
the same perfect in Godhead and also
perfect in manhood;
truly God and truly man,
with rational soul and body;
consubstantial with the Father according
to the Godhead,
and consubstantial with us men according
to the Manhood;
in all things like unto us,
but without sin;
begotten before all ages of the Father
according to the Godhead,
and in these latter days, for us and for
our salvation, born of the Virgin Mary,
the Mother of God, according to the
Manhood;
one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, only
begotten,
to be acknowledged in two natures,
inconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly,
inseparably;
the distinction of natures being by no
means taken away by the union,
but rather the property of each nature
being preserved, and concurring in one
Person and one Subsistence,
not parted or divided into two persons,
but one and the same Son, and only
begotten, God the Word, the Lord Jesus
Christ;
as the prophets from the beginning have
declared concerning Him,
and as the Lord Jesus Christ Himself has
taught us,
and in accordance with the Creed of the
holy Fathers handed down to us.
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