Open Source Edition
arrow_rightPart One: The Profession of Faith
arrow_rightSection Two: The Creeds
arrow_rightChapter Two: I Believe In Jesus Christ, The Only Son of God
arrow_rightArticle 3. "He Was Conceived By the Power of the Holy Spirit, And Was Born of the Virgin Mary"
arrow_rightParagraph 1. The Son of God Became Man

In Brief

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At the time appointed by God, the only Son of the Father, the eternal Word, that is, the Word and substantial Image of the Father, became incarnate; without losing his divine nature he has assumed human nature.

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Jesus Christ is true God and true man, in the unity of his divine person; for this reason he is the one and only mediator between God and men.

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Jesus Christ possesses two natures, one divine and the other human, not confused, but united in the one person of God’s Son.

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Christ, being true God and true man, has a human intellect and will, perfectly attuned and subject to his divine intellect and divine will, which he has in common with the Father and the Holy Spirit.

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The Incarnation is therefore the mystery of the wonderful union of the divine and human natures in the one person of the Word.