Relationships between God the Father, Mary and the two natures of Jesus Christ
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Your statement was absolutely correct.
The Athanasian Creed states,
Est ergo fides recta ut credamus et confiteamur, quia Dominus noster Iesus Christus, Dei Filius, Deus pariter et h*m* est. Deus est ex substantia Patris ante saecula genitus: et h*m* est ex substantia matris in saeculo natus.
which is translated into English as,
Therefore, the right faith is that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is equally God and man. He is God, of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and, he is man, of the substance of [his] mother, born in the world.
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You have corrected characterized that Jesus is fully God and fully man. No heresy here!
The only thing that is weird here is Mary being the one who imparts the human nature. Typically, he is called the Son of Adam or the Second Adam - moreso than Mary - but it doesnt really matter whether you say Adam, Mary, or even Joseph, as one of the gospel genelogies state. It isn't any heresy to name any human as being the importer of humanity.
Historically, Mary has been given the title Theotokos (Mother of God) but nothing is said of Mary's substance or essence, other than she was obviously human. Catholics also believe her to be sinless, because of her "Immaculate Conception," but this too is dogma rather than Scripture.
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I don't believe that would be heresy at all. Jesus, being fully human and fully God is the only one qualified to act as high priest for the church - the go-between between God and man. He's qualified because he was tempted in every way, but was without sin.
At least this is my understanding, and I tend to be pretty conservative when it comes to my understanding of Scripture. Mainstream Christianity would likely argue that this is the only way to understand this particular viewpoint. If Christ was only God, and was not also man, then he is not qualified to pay the penalty for our sins. He would have no temptation, being God only. However, if he was only man, he would not have had the capability to be sinless, as all mankind are fallen and depraved. It's only through the combination of the two natures of Christ that Christ's sacrifice is both unique and satisfies the requirements of the law.
I'd like to hear a Catholic chime in on this one. From what I understand, some in Catholicism believe Mary to have been sinless, which is not a viewpoint held by mainstream Protestantism.
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I'd imagine that would be a heresy of the heresy of modalism or arianism or something, but that's not a very precise answer since a heresy of a heresy could be anything.
So, if you want to identify a heresy to the doctrine of the incarnation it would have to deny that Mary is the Holy Mother of God. The heresy that denied that was Nestorianism. You can read St. Cyril give him the business in his 12 Anathemas.
The miracle of the Incarnation of Jesus took Mary's flesh and made Jesus, like God took part of Adam and made Eve, except in reverse; this is all very fitting and proper and a completion of the work of the OT, as it should be. Moreover, it is a mystery and a miracle that cannot be understood by reason alone, as it should be.
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