54. That in Christ man is God is to be shown from three places in the Formula Concordiae (from Paul, Rom. 14:11; Col. 2:9; from John's first Epistle 5:20-21), and from the Lord's words that:
1. God was the Word, and the Word was made flesh. 2. All things of the Father are His. 3. All of the Father come to Him. 4. As the Father hath life in Himself, so has the Son (Life in Himself is God). 5. The Father and He are one. 6. He is in the Father, and the Father in Him. 7. He who seeth Him, seeth the Father. 8. He is the God of heaven and earth. 9. He governs the universe. (From the Creed.) 10. He is called "Jehovah, the Redeemer." 11. He is called "Jehovah, our Righteousness." 12. It is said that "Jehovah would come into the world." 13. In the Apocalypse (Chap. 1) it is said, that He is "the first and the Last." 14. In a word, He is God the Father who is invisible, in the Human which is visible before minds. Because there is thus One God in the church, the church is the church, etc., etc. From the Athanasian Creed it is said:
As the soul and body is one man: so God and Man in Christ is one Person; then that the Human Nature was taken into God.
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