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The puzzle of the incarnation is often posed as \u201chow could the infinite become finite?\u201d <\/p>\n
It\u2019s the wrong question. The Son is infinite in all his attributes \u2013 His wisdom, power, goodness, truth. But He is not infinite-without-qualification. <\/p>\n
He is not infinite in the sense that He has no bounds in any sense. As soon as we call Him Son, we are saying He has a Father; and as soon as we say \u201cthe Father is God, and the Son is God, and yet the Father is not the Son,\u201d we are saying that there is a \u201cboundary\u201d between Father and Son Even if that boundary is imagined perichoretically, it\u2019s still there, because the Son who indwells the Father exhaustively is not <\/em> the Father. <\/p>\n When the Son became flesh, he assumed new, human boundaries. But He knew boundaries already, because He is the eternal Word who is from the Father and \u201ctoward\u201d the Father. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The puzzle of the incarnation is often posed as \u201chow could the infinite become finite?\u201d It\u2019s the wrong question. The Son is infinite in all his attributes \u2013 His wisdom, power, goodness, truth. But He is not infinite-without-qualification. He is not infinite in the sense that He has no bounds in any sense. As soon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology-christology"],"yoast_head":"\n