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    If the Son is homoousios with the Father yet genuinely ma... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→God is immaterial and eternal (has no material or temporal parts).

    If the Son is homoousios with the Father yet genuinely material and temporal in the Incarnation, divine immateriality cannot be an essential divine attribute.

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    • 1.The Incarnation involved genuine assumption of material body and temporal succession, not mere appearance or phantom form.
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    • 2.Essential divine attributes cannot be temporarily suspended or absent without compromising divine nature itself.
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    • 3.If the Son truly became material while remaining divine, immateriality was not necessary to His divinity during Incarnation.
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    • 1.The Son's divine nature remained immaterial; only the human nature assumed materiality—these are distinct natures united.
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    • 2.Essential attributes apply to the divine nature qua divine, not to composite human-divine states or temporary modes.
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    • 3.Immateriality describes God's transcendence and aseity, which cannot be genuinely altered without ceasing to be God.
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