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NESTORIUS : UNDERSTANDING INCARNATION PROF. M. M. NINAN come in the form (morphēn, i.e., very nature) of a servant. That is, he must come fully as a man, and as a man he must live his life and give his life as one of us. In so doing, Christ pours himself out (all of who he is) as he takes on, in addition to his full divine nature, a full human nature. Again, it is crucial to see that in the self-emptying (ekenōsen) of the eternal Son, Paul does not say that he poured something “out of” himself. No, absolutely not! Rather, he poured out himself. All of who he is as the eternal Son of the Father, as the one who is the form (morphē) of the Father, is poured out fully. Here, then, is no subtraction, strictly speaking. It is a “subtraction” (i.e., a pouring out, an emptying) by adding human nature to his divine nature. He came, then, to become the God-man—the one whose very divine nature took on fully the existence of a created human nature. He poured himself out by adding to himself the nature of a man, indeed, the nature of a servant par excellence who would give his life in obedience on the cross to fulfill the will of his Father. There is another important point which is often overlooked by almost all theologians in the kenosis concept is that they forget the principle of power in the Kingdom of God. The principle in the the Kingdom of God is upside down to the Principles of greatness of the Kingdom of this world as created by Adam because of the fall. Jesus in fact did explain pretty clearly before he went to the cross at the last supper. Who Is the Greatest? Luke 22:24- 26 A dispute also arose among them, as to which of them was to be regarded as the greatest. And he said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those in authority over them are called benefactors. But not so with you. Rather, let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves. Mark 9:35 Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all.” John 13:13-15 You call me Master, and Lord; and you say well, for so I am. If then I being your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that as I have done to you, so you do also. In the Kingdom of God each one serves the other. That is the characteristics of Love and is that not how we define God. So when Jesus was saying “My Father is greater than I” this was simply the characteristics of the Kingdom authority. While equality is the basic principle, each one serves the other. Christ though he was always God willingly gave up his privileges and took the human aspect seriously. Otherwise to say that he was sinless as a God would not make any sense. To give up his God powers and be a servant to the humanness would be the right character of the master in the Kingdom of God principle. He would not be partakers in humanness and be human to pay the price of redemption. Jesus the could have all the powers as God if he wanted and the God could have swallowed up the man in Jesus. But then that is not the Character of God and that would have made God a lower creature than the man Jesus. Luke 4: 7-8 You worship me, it will all be Yours.” But Jesus replied, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’” 9Then the devil led Him to Jerusalem and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple. “If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down from here.… All these replies of Jesus to the tempter overlooked the “if you are the Son of God” All his answers were as though he was just human even though he was aware the he was indeed God. 37
NESTORIUS : UNDERSTANDING INCARNATION PROF. M. M. NINAN This indeed was the proposition of Nestorius which are certainly reasonable. How will you explain this ignorance of the Son of God regarding His own return? Was Jesus lying in any one of this case? If Jesus were both full God and full man with all the powers of God and all the egoism of human form we have serious problem as indicted below: If Jesus was God all the time from the time of his conception to the death and beyond, what type of infant and boyhood did he have. Did he go round making clay birds and blew on them and gave them life? Did he cry when he was hungry. Did he have to grow in wisdom, mind and body like ordinary people? Nestorius’ immediate reason to Question the fullness of Godhead in the human Jesus was based on the birth of Jesus. Nestorius refused to call Mary the "Mother of God." Her baby was very human, he said. Jesus' human acts and sufferings were of his human nature, not his Godhead. To say Mary was Mother of God was to say God had once been a few hours old. "God is not a baby two or three months old," he argued.” Did the baby Jesus held his hand in blessing to the three wise men who came to pay their homage to the King and Messiah? 38
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