Reflections in the Light of the Incarnation
Council of Chalcedon, AD 451Therefore, following the holy fathers, we all with one accord teach men to acknowledge one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, at once complete in Godhead and complete in manhood, truly God and truly man, consisting also of a reasonable soul and body; of one substance (homoousios) with the Father as regards his Godhead, and at the same time of one substance with us as regards his manhood; like us in all respects, apart from sin; as regards his Godhead, begotten of the Father before the ages, but yet as regards his manhood begotten, for us men and for our salvation, of Mary the Virgin, the God-bearer (Theotokos); one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten, recognized in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation; the distinction of natures being in no way annulled by the union, but rather the characteristics of each nature being preserved and coming together to form one person and subsistence, not as parted or separated into two persons, but one and the same Son and Only-begotten God the Word, Lord Jesus Christ; even as the prophets from earliest times spoke of him, and our Lord Jesus Christ himself taught us, and the creed of the Fathers has handed down to us.
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How lovely. When we visited friends at Mirfield Seminary in England I was pulled in. I'm glad of our current path, but I was sad to miss out on the 'would have been' time at seminary.
Is rock and roll a tool of the devil?
Dear Anonymous,
Yes. As are other kinds of music. And TV and movies. And books and magazines and blogs. And food and drink. The devil can take anything pleasant and useful and use it to turn our attention away from God. If we let him.
Do you believe the devil as an actual entity similar to a human being?
Dear Anonymous,
I believe that evil spiritual entities exist. They are similar to human beings in the sense that they can be described as "personal." But they differ from human beings in that they do not have physical bodies.
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