<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Just curious, then: if the Logos was eternal, why did it have to enter history in the form of an actual living man?<br><br>(Not arguing...honestly curious. And sorry to get away from Wolfe. Theological discussions on this list sometimes seem to get contentious.)<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Matthew Weber <palaeologos@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, December 15, 2010 6:18:46 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Jerry Friedman <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jerry_friedman@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:jerry_friedman@yahoo.com">jerry_friedman@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div>Is it correct in Catholic theology to say that the Second Person or Logos has existed eternally but didn't become Jesus Christ till he incarnated?</div>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>That is precisely the case. <br clear="all"></div><br>-- <br>Matt +<br><br>The seaman's story is of tempest, the plowman's of his team of bulls; the soldier tells his wounds, the shepherd his tale of sheep.<br>
Sextus Propertius (54 B.C.-A.D. 2), Elegies, II, i, 43<br><br>
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