5th Sunday of Easter

 

I Believe in One Lord Jesus Christ pt. 3

The great debate among early Christians

How could Jesus be both God AND Man?

That is like saying,

How can something be both hot and cold at the same time.

God is Immortal;

Infinite and Eternal.

All knowing and all powerful.

Who has no beginning and no end.

Did not Jesus have a beginning

born of a woman in a stable?

And the son of a carpenter Who grew up in Nazareth.

Did He not eat and sleep just like every one else.

And cry and bleed and die,

And have an end,

Just like everyone else?

The question therefore was not how could Jesus be human,

That was obvious.

Rather the real question was ,

How could Jesus be God?

The Fathers of the Church at the Council of Nicea,

Began therefore by describing how.

Jesus is Lord and God!

While We are made;

The Son of God was begotten NOT made.

Consubstantial with the Father.

Now there’s a big word.

Which means “from the same substance.”

Our substance comes from our parents

So We are human from human.

Bone from bone

And flesh from flesh.

The Son of God however receives His substance from the Father,

So He is God from God;

Light from Light;

True God from True God.

And therefore is Divine.

And this Divine Son of God came down from Heaven

And became Human.

So that we might become Divine.

At Communion, We receive not only the Flesh and Blood of Christ,

But also His Soul and Divinity!

So that through The Eucharist,

We who are human can also like Jesus, be Divine!