What is the hypostatic union? | Rapp Report Daily 0158 | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to The Rapid Bull, Daily Edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is the ministry of Striving for Eternity. A question that was sent in to us, you can email us at info at strivingforeternity .org.
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- The question was this, what is the hypostatic union and why is it important?
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- The hypostatic union refers to the two natures of Jesus Christ, that he was fully
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- God and fully man. So he had two natures. Now this becomes important because when we look at what it was that Jesus Christ did and who he was, we see that he is unique in the sense that he was fully
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- God, the importance of that being that being an eternal being, he can pay an eternal fine.
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- When you look at a penalty, you must be able to pay the full amount of the fine.
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- For Jesus to pay the full fine, and that fine being eternal punishment, he either has to pay it for all of eternity, which he can only do that for one person, because it would take eternity to pay for it, or he would have to be an eternal being.
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- So Jesus being an eternal being is the importance of him being fully God, but being fully man, he can pay the fine for men.
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- In other words, he had to be a human being under the law, not breaking any of the law, and therefore he would be perfect in God's sight.
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- Then he can act as our substitute. So the hypostatic union is that Jesus Christ was fully man, fully
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- God, two natures, one being. This is what the hypostatic union is and its importance.
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