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Joe said:
Our natural tendency is to assert Christ's divinity above His humanity.

I certainly don't want to be guilty of preferring one above the other. Nor do I want to separate or confuse the two natures. I think Chalcedon 451 is a fine summary.

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As one who had taken upon himself a full human nature, it was natural for Him to shrink from the horror of the Cross, a horror magnified by His knowledge that in death He would be forsaken by God and experience the full weight of divine wrath upon the sins of the elect.

Yet there were many times he did not do what was humanly natural, ie. walking on water, resisting Satan for 40 days in the wilderness, seeing the disciple's thoughts under a tree miles away, etc. After all of those (and more) amazing feats of courage and divinity, it strikes me as odd that he would shrink from his purpose. Perhaps he was praying regarding something else. Was he threatened with eternal separation from God?
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