Obviously Chalcedon did not solve the problem of how deity can unite with humanity in a single person. At the human level the problem resists explanation. The Bible regards the Event as absolutely unique. The merit of the Chalcedonian statement lies in the boundaries it established. In effect, it erected a fence and said, “Within this lies the mystery of the God-man.” Fifteen hundred years after the event we may wish for more understandable terms, but we dare not say less than the church said then.
