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Introduction to Orthodox Christianity

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should probably be "born of the Theotokos without a [lower-case f] father", not "Father", which makes one think of God the Father, and get confused.
''Main articles: [[Jesus Christ]], [[Christology]]''
The second person of the Holy Trinity, the Son of God, begotten before all ages by the Father without a mother, was begotten in time by the Virgin Mary the [[Theotokos]] without a Fatherfather. He is the [[Logos]], the Word of God, and he became flesh and dwelt among us, as says the beginning of the [[Gospel of John]]. Jesus Christ is God in the flesh. This is the doctrine of the [[Incarnation]], that God became a man.
Our Lord Jesus is the ''Theanthropos'', the God-man. He is not half God and half man, nor is he a hybrid of the two. Rather, he is fully God and fully man, perfect in his divinity and perfect in his humanity. He has two natures, joined together in the Incarnation without mixture, division, or confusion. As a result of being fully God and man, he also has two wills, one human will and one divine will to which the human one is submitted. He has two natures yet remains one person, one [[hypostasis]].

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