Jesus Christ is truly God and truly Man (HOMILY FOR TUESDAY OF THE 4TH WEEK OF EASTER (ST ATHANASIUS) MAY 2023
HOMILY FOR TUESDAY OF THE 4TH WEEK OF EASTER, (ST. ATHANASIUS) Acts 11:19-26; Ps.87; John 10:22-30 Jesus Christ is truly God and truly Man The life and contribution of St. Athanasius makes us realize that the creed that we profess today, was not formulated without fierce theological debate. Every statement in the creed was arrived at after so much theological deliberations. Today, we are celebrating the contribution of St. Athanasius to the growth of the Faith particularly in the formulation of an article of the faith, namely, that Jesus Christ is truly and fully God. Athanasius wrote and taught to refute the heresy of Arianism. Arianism taught that the incarnation is not possible and sensible because the world is saturated with evil and so, God cannot soil himself by becoming man. Therefore, the Jesus who was truly and fully man, could not have been God. Their rejection of Jesus as God was in a bid to safeguard the divinity of God. However, since Jesus was quite extraordinary, they ta...