Working on an entire album of lofi music. Here's one of those songs. Album should drop next week. THEN, a couple of weeks after that we hope to have our 24/7 stream up and running.

THE ERROR OF ARIUS ABOUT THE INCARNATION

In their eagerness to proclaim the unity of God and man in Christ, some heretics went to the opposite extreme and taught that not only was there one person, but also a single nature, in God and man. This error took its rise from Arius. To defend his position that those scriptural passages where Christ is represented as being inferior to the Father, must refer to the Son of God Himself, regarded in His assuming nature, Arius taught that in Christ there is no other soul than the Word of God who, he maintained, took the place of the soul in Christ’s body. Thus when Christ says, in John 14:28, “The Father is greater than I,” or when He is introduced as praying or as being sad, such matters are to be referred to the very nature of the Son of God. If this were so, the union of God’s Son with man would be effected not only in the person, but also in the nature. For, as we know, the unity of human nature arises from the union of soul and body.

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RESTORATION OF MAN BY GOD THROUGH THE INCARNATION

We indicated above that the reparation of human nature could not be effected either by Adam or by any other purely human being. For no individual man ever occupied a position of pre-eminence over the whole of nature; nor can any mere man be the cause of grace. The same reasoning shows that not even an angel could be the author of man’s restoration. An angel cannot be the cause of grace, just as he cannot be man’s recompense with regard to the ultimate perfection of beatitude, to which man was to be recalled. In this matter of beatitude angels and men are on a footing of equality. Nothing remains, therefore, but that such restoration could be effected by God alone.

But if God had decided to restore man solely by an act of His will and power, the order of divine justice would not have been observed. justice demands satisfaction for sin. But God cannot render satisfaction, just as He cannot merit. Such a service pertains to one who ...

Another prayer request:

As providence would have it, my cousin purchased a two-family house quite close to where my husband and I live. He's fixing up the apartments and renting them out.

Hubby's mother (hubby is her only child) was widowed this past winter. She insisted on staying in her house for at least 5 years, but it is fast becoming clear that she can't handle the house and property, and she currently lives too far away from us and from her brother (he's her executor and I'm her healthcare proxy) for us to help her as much as she needs and is going to need come winter.

We're afraid, and the evidence is revealing itself already, that this winter is going to be far too hard on her. She's already told us her oil boiler is being reported as needing to be replaced to the tune of thousands of dollars. She could be in this apartment with a brand new gas furnace on a city gas line where all she has to worry about is clicking the thermostat to the setting she wants. My cousin is a ...

I could use some prayer concerning a decision I am trying to make.

Hubby and I talked about it and he's ok with me cutting out two of my three clients so I can be home more with our homeschooling boys and not feeling stretched so thin. This comes on the cusp of my body starting to react very poorly to my crazy fit-it-all-in schedule. In my mind I can handle everything. I've got it all planned out! But in reality, when executed, my body crashes.

Currently, I am experiencing stress-induced involuntary tics and twitching, and stress-induced auto-immune rashes and terrible itching. I also have almost daily constant headaches and short-term memory loss. (I see a neurologist in November). My family is afraid that this is going to worsen into a stroke or something. It's weird because mentally (other than the memory loss) I am fine! I'm eager and excited to do these things. I love my clients and it breaks my heart to consider quitting the one couple especially. I know that the ...

Please pray for Poland, there has been heavy rainfall over past 4 days and one of our regions is getting hit with floods right now. In one of the cities a Franciscan monestary was hit with a wave, whole first floor is flooded and streets all around it. In my friends home town there were 2 bridges broken by the water. Its pretty bad. The wave is also going to come to my city in few days.