Hypostasis

You don't get this at all.

This is called, here's a fancy word for you, the hypostatic union.

Hypostatic union of Christ.

This means that he is not a mixture.

You're not getting fifty percent God, fifty percent man.

So there's a lot of stories so that if you're young in your faith, you don't, you don't have to be spoon-fed.

You can go, "Oh, wow, what does it mean that Jesus is fully God but also is, is as close as my next breath?" Hypostatic union, lofty term, but, you know, my 17-year-old wants to understand that, where she is developmentally, as much as the 70-year-old women I know.

It's, how can I have more intimacy? Because he is perfectly holy, but then he became like us so as to save us.

So, you know, I think you can learn the concepts, of course, at a more, more mature level, but these, these concepts, I wish when I was younger I had had a little more honest, deep conversation instead of so many flannelgraph-

I uniquely instantiate human nature

as the person J, hypostasis J, the subject J.

But in terms of having human nature, I have the exact same human nature you have, and we have the exact same human nature Jesus had.

Exactly the same.

Faith is a substance.

The word substance is the Greek word hypostasis.

Hypostasis literally means a certificate of ownership.

It is a title deed.

You buy a piece of land, you get a title deed.

Chapter 4, The Philosophy of Mr. Bertrand Russell.

Section 2, The Study of Essence.

The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably, says Mr. Russell, the greatest achievement of which our own age has to boast.

It was assumed as self-evident until Cantor and Dedekind established the opposite that if from any collection of things some were taken away, the number of things left must always be less than the original number of things.

Person.

The word person was translated from the Greek word hupostasis.

Hupostasis.

I can spell for you.

H-U-P-O-S-T-A-S-I-S. Hupostasis.

Which implies that which makes the existence of another real.

That which makes the existence of another real.

Hupostasis.

And I had this up last year if you, if you wrote it down.

Hypostasis.

You may have written with a Y. Hypostasis, and the Latin word is persona, and this is where we get the word person.

And the way that the, the early church fathers at the Council of Nicaea time used this word was, uh, as a, a, how do I say this without being a heretic? Uh, a...

I, I don't know how to tell you this, except it's a person [laughs] of the Trinity.

There is no clear before slash after point in time.

Hypostasis begins at the moment when the abstract term is no longer treated merely as abbreviated speech, but as an independent entity.

and that happens almost inevitably as soon as one uses abstract terms at all, hypostatizing is more than a mere tolerable thinking error.

Precisely in the economic and social sciences, hypostatizing often serves to unjustifiably exalt the collective, the state, or the people, to ascribe to it a higher dignity than to the individual, so that the individual human being disappears from view, is subordinated to the collective, and is dissolved in it beyond recognition.

So let's take a question-

Hypostases.

Yeah.

Hypostases.

You get into the Greek stuff, and that was like, whatever.

But yeah, o- one God, three persons.