Found a version I like better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRVfr7tP_x4&feature=related
Nobody here wants to address whether this faithfully presents the two natures?
Maybe it's so simple that nobody wants to embarrass me by responding?
Mike Bennett
I, like you, know enough to know that the song is theologically problematic. And enough to know that I am not the one to start explaining why. I'd get myself into trouble very quickly with the professional theologians who post here.
I am confident, though, that the lack of responses to your thread is not due to the simplicity of the issues involved. It's much more likely that the opposite is true.
From the Athanasian Creed:
But it is necessary for eternal salvation that one also faithfully believe the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore it is the true faith that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is at once God and a human being. He is God, begotten from the substance of the Father before all ages, and a human being, born from the substance of his mother in this age. He is perfect God and a perfect human being, composed of a rational soul and human flesh. He is equal to the Father with respect to his divinity, less than the Father with respect to his humanity.
Although he is God and a human being, nevertheless he is not two but one Christ. However, he is one not by the changing of the divinity in the flesh but by the taking up of the humanity in God. Indeed, he is one not by a confusion of substance but by a unity of person. For, as the rational soul and the flesh are one human being, so God and the human being are one Christ.
He suffered for our salvation, descended into hell, rose from the dead, ascended into the heavens, is seated at the right hand of the Father, from where he will come to judge the living and the dead. At his coming all human beings will rise with their bodies and will give an account of their own deeds. Those who have done good things will enter into eternal life, and those who have done evil things into eternal fire.
Kolb, R., Wengert, T. J., & Arand, C. P. (2000). The Book of Concord : The confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (24–25). Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
I guess I'm thinking that a
Person was crucified and rose again, and that that
Person had two natures, not to be either confused or separated, and that the part of the song that deals with crucifixion and resurrection gets derailed because of that.
I didn't have it sharply focused until I was provoked to look up the Athanasian Creed.
Mike Bennett
