As a result of the Incarnation, what were the relations between Christ and God the Father, and conversely?
The consequences of the Incarnation were that Christ was subject to the Father; that He prayed; that He served God the Father by His priesthood; and that, although He was the Son of the Father by nature, not by adoption, He was predestined by the Father (XX.-XXIV.).
How was Christ subject to the Father?
He was subject to the Father by reason of His human nature because this had only participated goodness, whereas the Father is goodness by essence; hence whatever was related to Christ's human life was ruled, disposed, and ordered by the Father.
In Christ there was the most perfect and absolute obedience in respect of the Father (XX. 1).
Was not the human part of Christ also entirely subject to Himself by reason of His divine nature?
Yes, for the divine nature, by reason of which the Father was superior to the Son in His human nature, is common to the Father and the Son (XX. 2).
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