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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Question of the Week #901: Could I Have Two Natures?

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Question of the Week #901: Could I Have Two Natures?

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0:00.0

Hello, I've called myself a Christian for over two decades, but it's only in the past year that I've actually had a real, personal, amazing relationship with our creator.

0:23.4

I'm trying to play catch up now,

0:25.4

and I have a few questions about souls and persons,

0:28.4

as these topics are of great personal interest

0:30.7

and importance to me.

0:32.3

Jesus is fully God and fully human. He has

0:35.8

two natures while being one person. We are created in God's image. Does that mean

0:40.8

it is possible for us to have multiple natures as well?

0:44.0

Jesus took on human nature at the incarnation and so the nature was added to him right?

0:50.0

That obviously seems to be a bodily change, having a human body.

0:55.6

Was there an addition to his soul such that humanity was added to it?

1:01.3

Dr Craig has previously said that he believes that Logos is the soul that is joined with

1:07.1

human flesh to complete the full human nature. So maybe this idea doesn't even make sense

1:12.2

on this view.

1:13.0

But are we, our souls, similar to Christ's in the respect?

1:18.0

If I'm not mistaken, it seems that Dr Craig would say that the answer is yes.

1:22.0

In question of the week number 760, Dr. Craig would say that the answer is yes.

1:22.7

In question of the week number 760,

1:24.6

Dr Craig says that a human is an individual

1:27.4

composed of a rational soul and a hominin body.

1:31.0

And further in that same response, a rational soul conjoined with the non-Haminin body of an

1:36.2

extraterrestrial, like a Klingon, would not be a human person.

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