The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum 2 questions: Trinity, Incarnation

Absolutely! My point is, albeit perhaps not expressed as clearly as it should have been, that the divine nature retained all its incommunicable attributes while the human nature remained finite, being fully man in the one person of the Lord Jesus Christ. The divine nature is not "Christ". For Christ is the incarnate Son of God, and He having a body cannot be actually, physically present either corporeally or spiritually in the Lord's Supper. The divine Son of God being Omnipresent cannot be contained within the body of Christ. And the body of Christ and the human nature is not Omnipresent. Further, Christ without the divine nature would no longer be truly the Lord Christ; the two natures are inseparable.

What might make this easier to comprehend is by the analogy found, albeit not of two distinct natures, in the makeup of man. A man consists of body and soul, for those of us who are Dichotomists. Although there is a distinction between these two elements, a man isn't a true man unless both body and soul are joined together. Thus, the Lord Christ would not be and cannot be Christ unless both the divine nature and the human nature are joined together in the one person. Thus, it is my contention, along with myriad others, that the PERSON of the Lord Jesus Christ is not physically nor spiritually present in the Supper, for the Person of Christ now sits at the right hand of God. But rather, He is present through the ministry of the Holy Spirit Whom He sent upon His ascension.

In His Grace,