Was Jesus two separate individuals in one body?
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Jesus is the Son of Man and the Son of God the Father.
Jesus is the Creator:
Ephesians 3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ
Jesus Creates from the “will” of God the Father:
John 5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
Only those that do the will of God the Father are related to Jesus:
Matthew 12:48-50 But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren… for whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Jesus Christ is the eternal manifest-will of God the Father, eternally born of the Holy Spirit. When the “Word became flesh”, it was not so we could ponder what divine flesh might be, but that the imagination of the heart of man might be fully enabled to it’s divine calling.
John 4:23,24 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
The incarnation was not to hold God captive within human form, but rather that mankind through a relationship with Jesus Christ might be made spiritually alive.
1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit
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According to the Westminster Confession of Faith:
The Son of God, the second person in the Trinity, being very and eternal God, of one substance and equal with the Father, did, when the fulness of time was come, take upon Him man's nature,(1) with all the essential properties and common infirmities thereof, yet without sin;(2) being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, of her substance.(3) So that two whole, perfect, and distinct natures, the Godhead and the manhood, were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition, or confusion.(4) Which person is very God...
This appears to suggest that your "two persons" theory is mistaken, because Christ is one person with two natures. Whether or not this answers your question rather depends on your view of WCF, and assumes that your definition of person is the same as that used by WCF.
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