Jesus, the tent?

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MeB4:

>Is it safe to try and
>utilize a cornerstone of trinitiarianism to explain the Oneness of God?


Bro Shaw:
>[Matthew]:
>I don't view my conclusions about the dual nature of Christ as trinitarian.
>To say that God came in the flesh doesn't necessitate a belief that He is
>somehow two at all.  We affirm the union of those natures in the person of
>Jesus Christ.

Me Now:

Bro Shaw I apologize if what you thought was an implied attack on your
belief as being Trinitarian.  

However you must admit that the very cornerstone of Trinitarianism
established in the Nicean Creed, as that of, the Duality of nature, yet
Oneness of God in Christ.  The Arian controversy was, that Christ (much like
Bro Marlon states) had a completely separate Spirit, or Soul, or essence,
then that of the Spirit of God. Arius taught that the Christ was truly the
Son of God, In that God fathered the Son, but that the Son was a man as much
as you and I, yet, without the Sin of Adam.  Christ was a Perfect Man, a
second Adam if you please, but not God and Man until his baptism by John. 
At which time God moved into The Christ in order to reconcile the world unto
himself.  What the Nicean Creed hoped to establish as canon was that the
Spirit of Christ and that of The Father (or God the Father) was the same
Spirit, or Soul, or essence.  In doing so debunk the Arian movement.

I believe that some of us may be discribing the same accident from the
perspective of different corners (to coin a euphemism).  In order to better
understand where the other is coming from I ask, Do you believe that God
possessed a dual nature (One being Human and One being Devine) prior to the
birth of Christ?

Yours in Christ,

Jeff Wescott