Question 48

But if his human nature is not present wherever his Godhead is, are then these two natures in Christ separated from one another?

Not at all: for since the Godhead is incomprehensible and omnipresent (Job 11;7-9), it must necessarily follow that the same is not limited with the human nature he assumed, and yet remains personally united to it (John 3;13).

Scripture references for paragraph 1

Berean Standard Bible. Public domain text and source credits.

Job 11:7-9
7Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?
8They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
9Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.

Acts 17:27
27God intended that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.

1 Kings 8:27
27But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

Job 3:13
13For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

Colossians 2:9
9For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.

Philippians 2:6-7
6Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
7but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.

John 3:13
13No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.

Source and edition

Heidelberg Catechism. RCA English, E. R. Good & Bro., Tiffin, 1879. RCA English, E. R. Good & Bro., Tiffin, 1879

Public Domain (historic text); CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikisource transcription). Source transcription.

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