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We are the ghosts of a superior world that has already ended..

I was going to wait to post this, but the poll numbers are atrocious, and tomorrow is guaranteed to no one. The hypostatic union is salvific. Groups that reject it include but are not limited to: JW's, LDS. The hypostatic union is the culminating event of God’s immanent relationship with the created world. It is here in the womb of the Virgin Mary that the infinite and uncreated Son is united to the finite created nature of humanity. The union of the infinite and finite is the very purpose of the incarnation. Through the hypostatic union, divine attributes are operative in and through the humanity of Christ, resulting in the overcoming of spatial limitations. This union was realized at the moment of conception and was present throughout gestation until Mary gave birth to Jesus; His 2 natures, fully human-fully divine unified in one person, the newborn Christ. Hence, she is the God-bearer (Theotokos). This title indicates more about Jesus than it does Mary, it an affirmation of the hypostatic union in utero. To say that Mary is only the Christotokos, that is only mother to His human side, is a heresy called Nestorianism which is described in the infograhics below. Nestorianism rejects the title Theotokos ('God-bearer') for Mary, thus emphasizing distinction between divine and human aspects of the Incarnation. It promotes the concept of a prosopic union of two persons (divine and human) in Jesus Christ, thus trying to avoid and replace the concept of a hypostatic union of two natures. Nestorianism holds that Christ had two loosely united natures, divine and human. A brief definition of Nestorian Christology can be given as: "Jesus Christ, who is not identical with the Son but personally united with the Son, who lives in him, is one hypostasis and one nature: human." Nestorianism was condemned as heretical at the Council of Chalcedon.

I was going to wait to post this, but the poll numbers are atrocious, and tomorrow is guaranteed to no one. The hypostatic union is salvific. Groups that reject it include but are not limited to: JW's, LDS. The hypostatic union is the culminating event of God’s immanent relationship with the created world. It is here in the womb of the Virgin Mary that the infinite and uncreated Son is united to the finite created nature of humanity. The union of the infinite and finite is the very purpose of the incarnation. Through the hypostatic union, divine attributes are operative in and through the humanity of Christ, resulting in the overcoming of spatial limitations. This union was realized at the moment of conception and was present throughout gestation until Mary gave birth to Jesus; His 2 natures, fully human-fully divine unified in one person, the newborn Christ. Hence, she is the God-bearer (Theotokos). This title indicates more about Jesus than it does Mary, it an affirmation of the hypostatic union in utero. To say that Mary is only the Christotokos, that is only mother to His human side, is a heresy called Nestorianism which is described in the infograhics below. Nestorianism rejects the title Theotokos ('God-bearer') for Mary, thus emphasizing distinction between divine and human aspects of the Incarnation. It promotes the concept of a prosopic union of two persons (divine and human) in Jesus Christ, thus trying to avoid and replace the concept of a hypostatic union of two natures. Nestorianism holds that Christ had two loosely united natures, divine and human. A brief definition of Nestorian Christology can be given as: "Jesus Christ, who is not identical with the Son but personally united with the Son, who lives in him, is one hypostasis and one nature: human." Nestorianism was condemned as heretical at the Council of Chalcedon.