Welcome to Mortification of Spin, the casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.

Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

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My name is Todd Pruitt, and I'm joined as always by my friends Amy Bird and Carl Truman.

And we wanted to dive right into a doctrinal discussion that is, I think, the deepest of all mysteries.

Not that we're thinking that we're going to solve all the mystery here, but to speak about a couple of aspects of the theology of incarnation, of God taking on human flesh.

This is surely the deepest of all mysteries.

And because of that, oftentimes as people have tried to grapple with God in the flesh and the

person of Jesus Christ, it's not surprising that a lot of heresies have sprung from the

misunderstandings here.

If you go to the first several centuries of the church, the great ecumenical creeds, we're all dealing with this

doctrine from one degree or another. The nature of the Trinity, the nature of Christ's deity and

his humanity. This was such rich soil from which heresies could spring up. And it's interesting.

I was having a conversation

recently with someone and we were kind of talking through some of these issues and the subject

came up. We were talking about the Second Commandment, for instance, and my brother said,

well, you know, it's no problem looking at images of Jesus or having images of Jesus because

when you look at Jesus, you're not looking at God. You're looking at God in flesh. And, you know, in that immediate,

I thought, okay, now that's really, obviously I disagreed with him and there's some big issues

with that. But I don't think that's very uncommon. And again, it springs from, I think,

some common misunderstandings, understandable misunderstandings,

related to how we grapple with this tremendous mystery and miracle of the incarnation.

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