Athanasian Creed On The Incarnation: Although He Is God And Man, He Is Not Two, But One Christ. How? By The Assumption Of The Humanity Into God

September 9, 2018 by

Mary and Jesus Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel.


The Athanasian Creed (LSB, pp. 319-20) speaks of the incarnation: “He is God, begotten from the substance of the Father before all ages; and he is man, born from the substance of His mother in this age. … Although He is God and man, He is not two, but one Christ … not by the conversion of the divine into flesh, but by the assumption of the humanity into God” (vv. 29, 32, 33).


From Luther’s Small Catechism with Explanation – 2017 Edition


(Mary and Jesus via wikipedia. PD-US)

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