Ch. 9: Who Is Christ? Part 12

What is the Chalcedonian Box?

• It is a box that we can put God in to make Him finite so we can understand Him.

• It marks out three boundaries that guard us from heresy about the Trinity.

• It puts heresy in a box so we can throw it away and not have to worry about it anymore.

• It marks out four boundaries that guard us from heresy about the person of Christ.

What are the four edges of the Chalcedonian Box?

• Three Persons

• Fully Human

• Fully God

• Two Natures

• One Person

True or False: Something that one nature does means that the person does the thing.

• True

• False

True or False: Something that one nature does means that the other nature also does the thing.

• True

• False

True or False: We should be careful to always use titles of Christ that remind us of His divinity when speaking of things that are done in His divine nature.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

False. It is ok to use titles that remind us of one nature to refer to the person of Christ when talking about an action that the other nature does.

In your own words, why is it important that Jesus is both fully God and fully man, one person with two natures?