Hypostatic union
Hypostatic union is the doctrine that Christ’s human and divine natures are united in one person (hypostasis).
Divine nature
- Jesus is God
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Main topic: Jesus is God
- Isa 9:6; Jn 1:1, 18; 20:28; Ro 9:5; Tit 2:13; Heb 1:8 (cites Ps 45:6); 2Pe 1:1 (cf. 2Pe 1:11)
- Divine nature necessary for atonement
- 1Sa 2:25; Job 9:32–33; 16:19–21; Ecc 8:8; Ps 49:7–9; 146:3–4; Heb 7:26
Human nature
- Called a man or “Son of Man” by himself and others (not exhaustive)
- Da 7:13; Mt 8:20; 13:53–56; Jn 8:40; Ac 2:22; Ro 5:15, 19; 1Co 15:21
- Had a soul, spirit, body, flesh, and blood
- Mt 26:26, 28, 38; Lk 23:46; 24:39; Jn 1:14; 11:33; 12:27; 19:30; 1Ti 3:16; Heb 2:14; 1Jn 4:2
- Was subject to ordinary human experiences, needs, and suffering
- Mt 4:2; 8:24; 11:19; 17:12; Lk 2:7, 40, 52; Jn 4:6; 19:28; Heb 2:10, 18; 5:8
- Human nature necessary for atonement
- Job 9:32–33; Heb 2:14–18; 9:22
Unipersonality
- Union of natures in one person
- Jn 1:14; 3:13; 6:62; Ac 20:28; Ro 1:3–4; 8:3; 9:5; 1Co 2:8; 2Co 8:9; Gal 4:4–5; Php 2:5–11; 1Ti 3:16
- Union brought to pass by virgin birth
- Mt 1:18, 20; Lk 1:34–35; 3:23
- Union is permanent
- Mt 26:64 (cf. Mk 14:62; Lk 22:69–70); Mt 28:9; Lk 24:39–43; Jn 20:20, 27–28; Ac 1:1–11; 7:56
- Permanence of union necessary for intercession
- Lk 22:31–32; Jn 17:9, 11, 15, 20; Ro 8:33–34; Heb 7:25; 9:11–12, 24; 1Jn 2:1; Rev 3:5
- Communicatio idiomatum
- Ac 20:28; Jn 3:13; 1Jn 3:16 KJV
- The extra Calvinisticum
- Col 1:15–17; Heb 1:1–3
- Two wills, divine and human (dyothelitism)
- Lk 22:42