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CovenantInBlood said:Why should we need a crucifix, which not only cannot depict in any way the shame and pain of Jesus' sufferings, which were far more than physical, but also would be directly in violation of the Second Commandment, which forbids visual representations of God?

Before I can understand the Reformed objection to the crucifix, I need to understand the Reformed doctrine of the hypostatic union of God the Son and the flesh of Mary. Do Calvinists subscribe to the Athanasian Creed?

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For the right faith is, that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man; God of the Substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and Man of the substance of His mother, born in the world; Perfect God and perfect Man, of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting. Equal to the Father as touching His Godhead, and inferior to the Father as touching His manhood; Who, although He be God and Man, yet He is not two, but one Christ: One, not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by taking the manhood into God; One altogether; not by confusion of Substance, but by unity of Person.

If so, how do Calvinists understand, "not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by taking the manhood into God"?