CCC 460
Profession of Faith›SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS›CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD›Paragraph 1. THE SON OF GOD BECAME MAN
The Word became flesh to make us "partakers of the divine nature": "For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God." "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God." "The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods." II. THE INCARNATION
Footnotes
- ⇒ 2 Pt 1:4.
- St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 19, 1: PG 7/1, 939.
- St. Athanasius, De inc. 54, 3: PG 25, 192B.
- St. Thomas Aquinas, Opusc. 57, 1-4.
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