Is Gods nature changed by Jesus being divine and human?
The Christian doctrine concerning Jesus’ two natures is called the hypostatic union. It is the teaching that the Divine Word of God (John 1:1) “became flesh and dwelt among us,” (John 1:14). Therefore, Jesus is both divine and human in one person (Col. 2:9); He has two natures: human and divine. But some who oppose the Trinity and Jesus’ incarnation (the Divine Word becoming a man), say that if Jesus is God in flesh this must mean that God’s nature changed because God added a human nature to His divine nature. This would violate Malachi 3:6 which says that God does not change. But, the union of the two natures of Jesus in one person does not constitute a change in the nature of God. Since the hypostatic union teaches that in the one person of Jesus there are two natures, the divine nature of Jesus is not affected by union with the human nature because there is no fusion of the two natures. That is, the divine nature is not combined with the human nature to make a third thing. This woul
