One Person

To suppose that a man, Jesus, was assumed by God proposes two minds and two wills. Minds and wills belong to persons. So in order for Christ to have two, he would have to be two persons. One mind and will belonging to God and the second set to the man Jesus. Jesus would possess his own mind and will before God’s incarnation and assumption of him and, if it were of necessity, after God were to leave him. Not only so, but these two minds and wills would be active in the God-man. This incredible proposition of schizophrenia, in the bearer of the world’s salvation, violates the accepted axiom that “Christ is one person with two natures; therefore, whatever goes with natures, Christ has two of, and whatever goes with persons, he has one of.” Christ’s self-consciousness and self-determination are established and found in and only in the God-man as two natures and one person. Christ’s nature found itself only in union with the divine and has no being apart from that union.