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CovenantInBlood said:
I'm not aware of anyone who claims that Christ's divine nature "expands" at some "times" after the Incarnation. Christ is "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." The divine nature remained and remains as it was from eternity. The human nature also remains human.
Amen! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/BigThumbUp.gif" alt="" /> We do not subscribe to the Lutheran view, which is akin to the "Kenosis Theory", wherein it is said that at the incarnation, the divine nature of the Son was restricted to a certain degree, albeit voluntarily. However, Chalcedon and the majority of Christian scholars have consistently maintained that in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ co-existed two distinct natures in their fulness; the divine and the human. Thus, the totality of the Son existed in the person of the Lord Christ, i.e., the second person of the Trinity took upon Himself human flesh but without change. He was Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresent of necessity else He would not be God. These essential divine attributes are incommunicable as they belong to God alone. This again, Chalcedon insists that there be no confusion of the two natures in the one person of the Lord Christ. Yet, although the two natures were and are separate they are inseparable.

In the present discussion it is Scripture's teaching and my belief, along with myriad others, that the resurrected Christ now sits at the right hand of God in the heavenlies, yet the divine nature within the one person is truly God of very God and thus is Omnipresent.

In His Grace,

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