--- H Dorrington <hjdinfl@...> wrote:

> Chad says: "Christ's humanity isn't merely defined by flesh and blood because
> humanity isn't merely defined by flesh and blood.  Humanity is also defined by
> will, cognition, and emotion.  If Christ is not also defined by those
> characteristics of humanity, he simply isn't human."
>  
> This is where you put the cart before the horse. You are forgetting that we were
> created in the image of God and it is Those divine God given characteristics that
> define humanity. He was all those things and had all those characteristics before
> the incarnation.  So no gnosticism here, sorry.

It's still gnosticism.  Humanity's will, cognition, and emotion is not defined by
immanence, omniscience or transcendence.  To do so is to be divine and not human. 
The moment you have a Christ that is immanent, omniscient, or transcendent, you have
a Christ that is not human.

Chad Bresson
Xenia, OH