The Mystery Of The Blessed Trinity!

[perfectunion33]

I'm looking for some deeper insight on the mystery of the Blessed Trinity. My first question is, how is it that God has no body when Christ took on flesh and He Himself said, "If you have seen me, you have seen the Father." Christ is the Image of God. He is also the Temple of God, and the fullness of God abides in Him. If the fullness of God abides in Christ, and Christ has a body, wouldn't that then mean that God now has a body as well.

[Apotheoun]

God the Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity, does have a body, while the Father and the Holy Spirit do not. It is a truth of faith that only the eternal Logos became incarnate.

[perfectunion33]

[quote name='Apotheoun' date='17 September 2009 - 05:19 PM' timestamp='1253229563' post='1968271']
God the Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity, does have a body, while the Father and the Holy Spirit do not. It is a truth of faith that only the eternal Logos became incarnate.
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Yeah, but how is it that God is one Nature and three Divine Persons when our Lord Jesus took on the flesh? Since the Word became flesh the second Person of the Blessed Trinity now has two natures, one human and the other God. Hence, the title the Man-God. If Jesus has two natures and is God, how is it that God has one Nature? Wouldn't this mean that God now has two natures and three Divine Persons?

[Apotheoun]

You appear to be confusing person and nature in God.

The Son, after the incarnation, is one divine person existing in two natures (divine and human), but the incarnation only involves the Son's personhood (i.e., His hypostasis), and not the personhood of the Father or the Spirit, because neither of them became incarnate of the Theotokos.

Edited September 18, 2009 by Apotheoun