What they need to do, of course, is to make some distinctions. Jesus, as the Word made flesh, is both God and man and he possesses both of those natures "without confusion, without change, without division, and without separation" (to use the words of the Chalcedonian definition). That means, among other things, that while it is perfectly proper to use the attributes of either nature when you are talking about the Person who is both (for instance: the carpenter of Nazareth made the world; God died on the cross), you must be careful not to scramble the two natures when you are speaking of how
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